West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of attempting to gain political mileage out of Operation Sindoor – the Centre’s military response to the April 22 Pahalgam attack.
Banerjee also asserted that her party, the Trinamool Congress, was ready to go to polls as early as tomorrow, referring to Bengal BJP chief and Union minister Sukanta Majumdar’s ‘Operation Bengal’ remark about “throwing the TMC in the Bay of Bengal in next year’s assembly elections”.
“What PM Modi said today is not only shocking but unfortunate… He and his party leaders have suggested ‘Operation Bengal’ like Operation Sindoor at a time when the entire opposition is representing the country on the world stage (to support the Centre’s anti-terror stand),” she told reporters at the state secretariat. PTI
