West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee today said at an election rally that when Prime Minister Narendra Modi had alleged that her party workers were involved in extorting money, she felt like giving him a “tight slap of democracy.”
Banerjee was speaking at a rally in the Bankura Lok Sabha constituency, where elections are scheduled in the next phase on May 12.
On Sunday, PM Modi had said at an election rally in West Bengal that Banerjee’s party, the Trinamool Congress, was engaged in tolabaji – extorting money and taking donations illegally all over the state in various sectors.
Retaliating to the allegation, Mamata Banerjee today said that money didn’t matter to her. “And therefore, when Narendra Modi comes to Bengal and says that Mamata Banerjee’s party is tolabaj, I feel like giving (him) a tight slap of democracy,” she said.
Banerjee had used the phrase in a different way in her earlier rallies too. She had told voters in various rallies that when children do something wrong, parents usually mildly admonished them, but when the older kids (buro khoka) did terrible wrongs, it could not be taken lightly, and people should use their voting powers to give such people a tight stamp of democracy.
