Mamata Banerjee alleges PM Narendra Modi 'seeking votes' from Bangladesh

Addressing a public meeting here, Banerjee said, "Elections are underway here and he (PM) goes to Bangladesh and lectures on Bengal. It is a total violation of code of conduct of the election.”

The TMC supremo said, “In 2019 LS polls, when a Bangladeshi actor attended our rally, BJP spoke to Bangladesh government and cancelled his visa.... When polls are underway here, you go to Bangladesh to seek votes from one section of people, why shouldn't your visa be cancelled? We will complain to EC.”

Banerjee, who is contesting the election from Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district, alleged that the Opposition party had roped in “goons to threaten people” and said she would remain put in Nandigram from March 28 till the end of polling on April 1 as the BJP had “plans to loot votes by using goons from other states”.

The chief minister dubbed Suvendu Adhikari and his family as "traitors", and claimed that one member of the household was seen distributing money among people on Friday night, hours before 30 assembly constituencies of the state went to polls.

She said only Prime Minister’s beard is growing, not economy.

“He calls himself Vivekananda, sometimes he says he is Rabindranath Tagore and has now named a stadium after himself. A long beard cannot make anyone Rabindranath Tagore," the TMC supremo said.

"The Prime Minister has named a stadium after him. He has put his photographs on COVID-19 vaccination certificates. He is making ISRO send his picture to space. A day will come when the country will be named after him," the chief minister said.