No Matter What…”: Mamata Banerjee’s Takedown Of Yogi Adityanath On Kumbh

Kolkata:

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, criticised massively over her “Mrityu Kumbh” statement, issued a stinging retort today, naming her Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath and citing his “abuses”. She also said her criticism has been “distorted” and converted into “complete lies”.  

“No matter what abuses Yogi Saheb flings at me, I will not get blisters. I respect him as a Chief Minister,” Ms Banerjee said at a press conference. 

“But I would say the families that are affected, you have not even given postmortem certificates, or death certificates. We have conducted postmortems of the bodies that reached here. I don’t know what happened in other states. And if you have announced compensation, you should give them the money,” the Chief Minister added.

Her response comes a day after Yogi Adityanath, while addressing the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, had targetted the critics.

At Kumbh, “Vultures got dead bodies. Pigs got filth… whereas sensitive people got a beautiful picture of relationships, traders got business, devotees got clean arrangements,” he had said amid much table thumping by MLAs.