The BJP on Sunday ridiculed Mamata Banerjee after her ‘brother’ and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal ‘ignored her’ when it came to inviting her in his swearing-in function in the national Capital.
Taking a dig at the Bengal Chief Minister State BJP president Dilip Ghosh said “Mamata Banerjee should abandon her dreams of becoming a national leader around whom the parties will rally because no one takes her seriously.
“Look at her much touted brother Arvind Kejriwal for whose electoral success she prayed at Kalighat and even kept fasts. See what happened. She was not even invited by him in his swearing-in ceremony. Her brother pleasantly forgot her. I feel really bad for her and her ambitions to become a national leader who aims at galvanizing the parties behind her,” Ghosh said.
Drawing a reference to the Bengal Chief Minister’s public moaning about her not being invited by the Railway Ministry at the inauguralfunction of Kolkata East-Metro corridor Ghosh said “she shed tears for not being invited by the Railway Ministry to a recent programme but what about her not being invited by the Delhi Chief Minister … I think she has been more pained by Kejriwal ji’s behavior than that of the Railway Ministry.”
The Chief Minister had earlier in a speech inside the Bengal Assembly said that she was really pained at the treatment meted out to her by the BJP-led Government. “I brought the East-West Metro to Kolkata after much sacrifice but now when its inauguration date came I was kept out of it,” she had said.
Asking her to refrain from making issues by
dramatizing non-issues and advising her to give good governance instead of nourishing national ambitions, Ghosh said “she should stop making issues out of non-issues by such public acts … instead of dreaming national she should concentrate on the State and try to give good governance to the people of Bengal which is gripped by poverty, crime, police inaction, tolabaji (extortion) and political victimization of the Opposition.”