West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with chief ministers as “casual and superflop” as, she said, none of the CMs, including herself, were given a chance to speak.
Banerjee, after attending the meeting with the PM on Covid-19, said all CMs were made to sit like “puppets”, and claimed a “dictatorship” is prevailing in the country.
“The Prime Minister called a meeting and invited the chief ministers. And all the chief ministers were sitting like puppets. Nobody was allowed to speak. Then how do we speak about the public demands? We are not bonded labourers. We feel insulted and humiliated. A dictatorship is going on. The Prime Minister is feeling so insecure that he did not even listen to the chief ministers. What is this fear about?” Banerjee asked. “If states were not allowed to speak why were they called? All the Chief Ministers must protest for not being allowed to speak,” Banerjee said.