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Modi visits troubled Manipur after 950 days, crying for NB in moments'-- Mamata

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has advised Prime Minister Narendra Modi to behave as a true PM of the country and not as a 'partisan PM' today.

Banerjee urged the Prime Minister: "Listen to the elected state government, not just your party colleagues. You are the Prime Minister of India, not just of BJP. Your responsibility lies in nation-building, not narrative-building…”

At Uttarkanya, Bengal government's North Bengal headquarters, Banerjee, today was giving a plausible explanation of yesterday's attack on the BJP leaders in Nagrakata. She visited several disaster hit areas, including Nagrakata.

“When the entire local administration and police is engrossed in relief and rescue operations, the BJP leaders chose to go to the affected areas with a large convoy of cars and under security cover of the central forces and that too without any information to local police and administration. How can the state administration, local police or the TMC be blamed for the incident," she asked.

Banerjee further questioned the credibility of the BJP leaders who were rubbished by the mass. She described: "The incident occurred in a constituency where the people themselves have elected a BJP MLA. Yet the Prime Minister sees no contradiction in painting the incident as a reflection of TMC’s so-called 'strongmanship.' Such sweeping, unsubstantiated generalisations are not only immature, but also, they are unbecoming of the highest office in the land."

Banerjee further sharpened her scathing attack on Modi, citing his lackadaisical approach in visiting troubled Manipur so long, and choosing NB disaster as a 'political tool' instead of doing the needful for the affected persons. She said: "Coming from a Prime Minister who visited Manipur only 964 days after it was engulfed in ethnic violence, the sudden concern for Bengal appears less like empathy and more like opportunistic political theatre."

Modi, however, hasn't reacted to 'Didi's' fresh charges against him.