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Never expected PM to call us 'thieves', he should respect my chair as I do his: Mamata Banerjee
Aug-26-2025

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, over his recent remarks, stating that she never expected him to disrespect her chair and the entire state and call people ‘thieves’.

Speaking at a government function in Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee said, ‘The Prime Minister should respect my chair as I respect his. I never expected him to call the people of West Bengal 'thieves.’ Banerjee claimed, the truth is that he has turned a blind eye to the functioning of the so-called 'double engine' BJP governments of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bihar, where corruption is at its peak. Mamata Banerjee termed Modi's comments as an ‘insult’ to the people of West Bengal and lashed out for holding back central funds that, she alleged, has put a ‘heavy burden’ on the state exchequer. 

Alleging that Modi travels to West Bengal ‘like a migratory bird every time there is an election knocking on doors’, West Bengal CM claimed that the state administration has satisfactorily replied to all queries of the Union government about utilisation of central funds for welfare schemes. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had stated at a public meeting in Kolkata on August 22 that ‘corruption, crime and the Trinamool Congress are synonymous’. PM had alleged, ‘The funds that the Centre sends to the West Bengal government do not reach the people but are devoured by TMC cadre’.


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