Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has launched a veiled attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for introducing a brand of politics that is devoid of courtesy. Writing in the Trinamool Congress mouthpiece Jaago Bangla, Mamata has compared Modi’s team with that of late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee saying the earlier regime was far more politically courteous and culturally adorable than the one led by Modi today.
Modi’s team was politically uneducated and lacked courtesy, Mamata has said. “How will they be able to run the country when it can be clearly seen that they (present regime) have no basic political education?” Mamata has said adding the leaders in Modi Government “should take lessons of political courtesy from Atalaji.”
The Trinamool Congress had earlier severely condemned Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh for foul-mouthing the ruling outfit saying when the BJP will come to power “we will peel their (TMC workers) skin off, rub salt in it and make them run for their lives.” Referring to the late Prime Minister she has written how she enjoyed an excellent rapport with him. “We often interacted, shared our political views but never attacked each other like this in the public,” Mamata says insisting, today leaders threaten others and conduct themselves as gang lords.
Mamata who has for the past a few days been on an inaugural spree unveiling Kolkata’s top Durga Pujas mostly organised by top Trinamool leaders including Ministers and MLAs was also happy about the Wednesday’s Calcutta High Court order refusing to interfere with the Government decision to grant Rs 10,000 each to the 28,000 clubs organising Durga Pujas all across the State.
The Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Debashis Kar Gupta and Justice Shampa Sarkar on Wednesday vacated the earlier interim stay on Rs 28 crore Governmental grant to the Puja organisers saying prima facie there was no need for the High Court to interfere with a decision which should otherwise be evaluated by the Legislature.
Senior State Minister Firhad Hakiim who himself organises the Chetla Agragami Durga Puja welcomed the Court order saying the political opposition in Bengal had become professional litigants who find pleasure in challenging Government decisions in court. “I welcome the court order,” he added.
