Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “delivering leisurely speeches on Mann ki Baat” while corona was taking its toll on the nation.
The Chief Minister who also held the Election Commission of India responsible for multiplying corona cases in Bengal said “instead of sermonizing the people on Mann ki Baat, the Prime Minister should work towards mitigating the pandemic crisis … there the people of the country are suffering and here he is delivering speeches in Man ki Baat.”
Saying that the people wanted performance and not his personalized speeches Banerjee said “who wants to listen to his Mann ki Baat? … none … still he continues with it … instead of talking Mann ki Baat he should talk of the pandemic.”
Banerjee said “there is shortage of medicine, there is no infrastructure, there is no oxygen and people are dying without it … here from Bengal oxygen and other medicines are being diverted to Uttar Pradesh … please arrange for these on priority basis and postpone your Man ki Baat for the time being.”
The Chief Minister also hit out at the Election Commission for playing the role of a “mirror of the BJP.” She said “EC is nothing but BJP’s mirror … we asked them to conduct the elections in lesser phases but they stretched it to eight phases … they brought in more than 2 lakh central forces without conducting any tests on them … they infected the people in Bengal.”
Criticising the Commission for letting the BJP’s criminals to rig the elections Banerjee said the “EC is controlling the mischief mongers in Kolkata, Asansol and elsewhere … they are influencing the SPs” and turning a blind eye on the way the BJP was splurging money to win the elections.
“The BJP has turned on a hosepipe of cash” and the EC was not taking note of this, she said attacking the State police officers too for “submitting to the diktats of the Commission.” She said “there are some police officers who get afraid of the EC and surrender before it but they forget that after the elections the EC will go and the State Government will remain for five years,” adding once again that she would move the Supreme Court after elections challenging the alleged prejudiced conduct of the Commission.