NEW DELHI: In yet another reply to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
‘s recent statement of feeling “sent by God,” West Bengal chief minister
Mamata Banerjee
said she would make a temple for him and offer
dhokla
, flowers.
Addressing an election rally at Behala in Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency, Mamata said, “A person who is God should not be in politics. I will make a temple for him and offer him flowers, sweets, and even dhokla.”
This came in response to PM Modi’s remark during an interview, where he expressed a belief in being divinely ordained rather than biologically born.
Earlier, Congress leader
Rahul Gandhi
also took potshots at PM Modi over his “sent by God” remarks. He said, “God sent Modi to help Adani and not the poor.”
Addressing a rally in Deoria, Rahul Gandhi said that the God in whom PM Modi has faith hadn’t sent him to serve farmers and labourers.
“Everyone else is biological but Narendra Modi ji is not biological. Modiji uper se tapak kr aai hai. Unko parmatma ne Hindustan bheja hai. He has been sent by his ‘parmatma’ to help Ambani and Adani but ‘parmatma’ has not sent him to help the farmers, labourers and poor people. If ‘parmatma’ had sent him then they (parmatma) would have asked him to help the poor and the farmers. Yeh kaise ‘parmatma’ hain? Yeh Narendra Modi ji wale ‘parmatma hain (What kind of God is this? This is PM Modi’s God),” Rahul Gandhi said.
This ‘sent by God’ remarks picked more pace when BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate Sambit Patra sayid that Odisha’s most revered deity “Lord Jagannath is a devotee of Prime Minister Narendra Modi”. After his comment Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik and other leaders reacted.
He, however, later clarified that it was a slip of the tongue and he wanted to mean that the prime minister was an ardent ‘bhakt’ (devotee) of Lord Jagannath.
(With inputs from agencies)
