Kolkata:- Describing the one-to-one between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as “political opportunism”, opposition parties in West Bengal today criticised the interaction.
“The meeting and sharing of stage by the two leaders is the final scene of the drama which their respective parties had played since last year’s Lok Sabha polls to fool the people of this state,” CPI-M politburo member Mohammed Salim told PTI.
The religious card played by both the parties only “complimented and supplemented” their brand of politics in Bengal, Salim alleged.
Banerjee, was a bitter critic of Modi and his policies since last year’s Lok Sabha poll. The relationship between the two plumbed the depths last year when the chief minister refused to attend several meetings called by Prime Minister Modi.
Modi too during his election campaign in Bengal last year had criticised the Trinamool Congress government as regards the multi-crore Saradha scandal, promising to book the guilty.
“This meeting is nothing but a political bonhomie between the two as the TMC needs the help of the Union government to save itself from the clutches of CBI in the Saradha scam and BJP needs the support of TMC MPs in the Rajya Sabha to pass various anti-people bills,” Salim said.
The Congress too slammed Modi for talking about corruption of the Congress but keeping mum on the Saradha scam.
“The PM was talking about corruption during Congress rule an a programme in Burnpur. But what about corruption of the TMC and Saradha scam? Is he not aware that a minister of the TMC government is serving jail in Saradha scam? Why was he mum? This proves that something is wrong and a political understanding has taken place,” Congress leader Abdul Mannan said.
PTI