QKolkata: Mamata Says Modi Not Fit To Be a Councillor, And More
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1. Didi Says Modi Isn’t Even Fit To Become A ‘Councillor’
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday explained her “slap comment” against Narendra Modi, saying that she didn’t talk about giving the PM a slap. In the same breath, she held that Modi wasn’t fit to even become “councillor of a municipality ward”.
“I didn’t talk about giving the PM a slap. I said he will be voted out and get a slap of democracy. And why should I hit you with stones? I said I will offer you sweets; sweets made of mud and stone chips so that your teeth break and you are unable to make false statements,” the CM said at a rally in Purulia’s Simulia.
(Source: The Times Of India)
2. Chairs, Bottles Fly At Modi Rally In Purulia
Chairs and bottles flew at Narendra Modi’s rally here on Thursday as sections of the crowd jostled for a better view of the prime minister, prompting Mamata Banerjee to take pot-shots at the BJP for its inability to organise meetings.
The chaos began before Modi’s arrival at Raibaghini Ground in Purulia town, where supporters had started gathering from 9am. Modi was to take the stage at 11.30 am and supporters had started streaming in from 9am.
(Source: The Telegraph)
3. Didi Picks 3 Leaders For Poll Strategy In Two Seats
Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee has assigned three heavyweights – Asansol mayor Jitendra Kumar Tiwari, minister Malay Ghatak and Birbhum party chief Anubrata Mondal – to chalk out the strategy to win the Purulia and Bishnupur Lok Sabha seats.
“See… Asansol mayor Jitendra and Malay have come here to work together with you in Purulia. They are very good. This unity is the strength of our party,” Mamata told a rally in Purulia’s Hura on Wednesday.
Tiwari and Ghatak have been camping in Purulia after the fourth phase elections were over on 29 April. Mamata has already deputed Mondal in Bishnupur.
(Source: The Telegraph)
4. Not Accepting PM Is Insulting The Constitution: Modi
Cyclone Fani, which exited West Bengal almost a week ago, continued to reverberate in the state but in the political arena as Prime Minister Narendra Modi unleashed an attack on chief minister Mamata Banerjee for failing to take his call offering help and belittling his high office.
“I called the CM two times. But she didn’t feel like taking the PM’s call. Even our officers were ready to help out the state government before the cyclone hit Bengal. But she refused to hold the meeting. Her arrogance will pave the way for her downfall,” Modi said in Bankura on Thursday, turning the tables on Trinamool minister Partha Chatterjee who had accused the PM of talking to the governor “bypassing” the CM. Banerjee had earlier said she was in Kharagpur at the time.
(Source: The Times Of India)
5. Senior EC Official To Take Stock Of Kolkata Readiness
The deputy election commissioner in charge of West Bengal will arrive in Kolkata ahead of the crucial final phase of elections on 19 May in which high-profile constituencties in Kolkata and suburbs go to polls.
According to additional chief electoral officer Sanjoy Basu, Sudip Jain will arrive on Sunday evening just after the sixth-phase polling ends to meet state officials the next morning and discuss preparedness for elections in the city. “Deputy EC Jain will arrive on Sunday evening, hold meetings on Monday and fly back to Delhi on Tuesday,” Basu said.
(Source: The Times Of India)
6. Met Sounds Swelter Alert
The city is doomed to suffer sultry weather at least till Monday, after which conditions might become favourable for thundershowers.
The meteorology department has warned that the western districts of Bengal — Purulia, Bankura, East and West Burdwan, Birbhum, Murshidabad, West Midnapore and Jhargram — would be in the grip of heatwave over the next two days.
The Alipore Met department recorded a maximum temperature of 37.5 degrees, two degrees above normal, but excessive moisture content in the air made the elements feel like 49 degrees, weather scientists said.
(Source: The Telegraph)
7. Friend Spiked Drink & Raped Me: Girl On FB
A student at Jadavpur University has alleged rape by a classmate of four years on 11 March after he reportedly spiked her drink on the campus. Given the immense pain and mental trauma she underwent, she reportedly could not muster the courage to pursue the matter legally as she felt it would have “transpired into a never ending Kafkaesque labyrinth leading up to more mental trauma” but finally, on Thursday, she wrote about her ordeal on Facebook.
(Source: The Times Of India)