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'PM Modi is anti-Bengali...: Trinamool MP's jibe after BJP's attack on Mamata Banerjee
UPDATED: Mar 3, 2024 17:30 IST
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a jibe at West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee government by calling TMC "Tu, Main aur Corruption", party MP Derek O'Brien called him "anti-Bengali. In a pre-recorded video, Derek said, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi is anti-Bengali. He came here, lectured on 'Nari Shakti' and then gave a ticket to someone who has vilified Bengali women. That's the 'Modi ki guarantee'. If you speak ill of Bengal, if you speak ill of women, we'll give you a ticket. He stopped the funds for Bengal for two years as an act of revenge. But then how did Bengal react? The West Bengal government has paid all the money themselves. So it's quite clear... People will come out and show their strength in the March 10 rally..."
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