Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday raised a “basic question” as to “why would there be different rules for the Prime Minister and others,” even as she went on a public relation exercise visiting a church at Chalsa in North Bengal.

“I am sensitive to the model code of conduct before the elections and desist from making even administrative commitments … but I wonder why there would be different set of rules for the Prime Minister and others” in that regard,” Banerjee said without naming Narendra Modi but referring to the his speech at an Reserve Bank of India programme.

Modi at an event in Mumbai on Monday delivered a speech at the 90th anniversary of the RBI and unveiled a commemorative coin.

“How the Prime Minister can make certain statements … how there can be two different laws,” Banerjee asked. The TMC leadership earlier raised objections regarding the Prime Minister’s statements where he promised a series of works after he would swear in for the third time post elections.  Referring to the massive devastation left by Sunday’s tornado in three districts of Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and Cooch Behar Banerjee said, “the Prime Minister has asked the BJP men to visit the victims … what he did not say was that the BJP workers should go and pay money to them … this is also one kind of violation of model code.”

The TMC had earlier petitioned the Election Commission of India against a recent conversation between the Prime Minister and BJP’s Krishnagar candidate Amrita Roy whom he advised to tell the people during campaigns that the BJP Government was thinking of returning Rs 3,000 crore seized by the Enforcement Directorate from the people who had defrauded the citizens.