The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday sought Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP)prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s unconditional apology for his personal attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, or else it would file a defamation suit against him.
Coming out strongly against Modi for his diatribe against Mamata Banerjee over the amount that she fetched her from one her paintings, West Bengal’s Finance Minister Amit Mitra said: “Either he (Modi) will have to apologise in political forum publicly so that all of India can hear or, we will file a defamation suit because of what he said this is patently false.” “He (Modi) says I think that one crore and eighty lakhs paintings sold, he (Modi) did not say I know, he (Modi) said I think, what somebody whispers into your ear and you are saying this to the whole world, this is irresponsibility of the first of order for which he (Modi) has to apologise to the nation,” Mitra said at a press conference.
Mitra said the people of Bengal were surprised over Modi’s sheer authoritarianism. “He symbolizes authoritarianism, arrogant, and most importantly people of Bengal are surprised that he riled against Mamata Banerjee for making personal attacks when she doesn’t even take her salary as chief minister let alone using a government car,” Mitra said. “His remark has reached such a stage which doesnot even qualify to be criticised which shows of his mean-mindedness,” Mitra added.
The TMC charged Modi to answer on underselling BALCO, and the scam involving Unit Trust of India (UTI) during when the NDA was in power. “Who will answer for the case of Balco, where the assessment of the company in terms of its finances was approximately 6000 crore rupees, under their period they had sold it 550 crores ,