KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday accused PM Narendra Modi of”playing dirty games”, linking the BJP’s anti-Bengal”vendetta politics” following the meeting poll reduction to the fundamental directive to state chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay to report into Delhi.
“When the PM informs me he will assist Bengal when I touch his toes, I’m prepared to do this,” Banerjee said.
“When it makes you happy, I don’t have any issue.
I could do that for Bengal.
However, please Prime Minister, don’t play with these games that are filthy.
I appeal to you to finish this political vendetta.
I appeal to you to withdraw this letter and enable the main secretary to make use of Covid- and – cyclone-affected individuals.
We’re working as a team.
Enable us to operate,” she added.
The Centre on Friday requested Bandyopadhyay to report to Delhi from 10 am on Monday seven times after approving a nation authorities petition to give him a three-month expansion.
“We thought that the Centre would speak with the country and finish this.
But we’ve only heard that it’s registered caveats from the (Calcutta) HC and Central Administrative Tribunal.
That can be one-sided.
I want very good feeling to prevail,” she explained.
“I’ve escalated now.
We’ll pick (on another move) determined by the circumstance,” she added.
Accusing the Centre of revising the program for the first”PM-CM assembly”, she explained:”Where’s the question of bypassing the assembly? It wasn’t a PM-CM assembly.
They revised the program to incorporate the Senate, Union ministers, opposition leaders and MLAs.
” When asked about the existence of meeting resistance leader Suvendu Adhikari at the PM’s cyclone review match and if that was a motive behind her bypassing that match, she took back,”Did the PM match the resistance leader if he travelled to Gujarat following Cyclone Tauktae? Did he fulfill with the resistance leader in Odisha?” Banerjee clarified her 30-minute delay in attaining Kalaikunda out of Sagar, stating her chopper was advised to wait around for 20 minutes since the PM’s chopper had been still landing.
“We waited to the street.
We had to put the air for 10-15 minutes.
However, this really is the safety protocol and that I don’t have anything to say,” she added.
“The weather was but we took a threat.
Courtesy demands that I fulfill the PM when he’s at Bengal,” she explained.
Banerjee said she hunted to fulfill Modi promptly after attaining Kalaikunda.
“Manager (safety ) Vivek Sahay was advised from the Special Protection Group to await one hour.
However, when we noticed the PM was at the conference space, we (the main secretary) went and met .
I filed the accounts, told me of my scheduled visits to cyclone-affected locations.
He discovered me.
He required the accounts.
I requested him not once but thrice,’Sir, can I depart with your kind consent?’ Then we left along with his consent.
Where’s the controversy? They revealed vacant seats.
Can they show us speaking about the PM even after?” She inquired.
“What’s his (the CS’s) fault? He had been like me because the head of the state government to oversee that the cyclone impact.
Is not that clear? However, in addition, he fulfilled the PM and me,” the CM said, accusing the PM’s division of”leaking one-sided accounts” which were”parroted with fundamental ministers”.
“Perhaps you have noticed one such episode in the past 74 years (since Freedom )? This isn’t just about Bengal’s principal secretary; that is shameful for many state chief secretaries.
Is this courtesy you extend into somebody on his retirement afternoon?” Banerjee requested.
“The Centre gave the main secretary an expansion to get Covid work.
And you want him ? Everybody is shocked in the unconstitutional and illegal action.
There appears to be a distinct rule for Bengal nowadays that doesn’t use to other people.
It’s like Bengal is under martial law,” she explained, adding:”It is possible to insult me but don’t insult my own officers.
I believe this requires a constitutional remedy rather than a political alternative.
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Can touch PM’s Toes, but Finish political vendetta: Mamata
