West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee took on Prime Minister Narendra Modi yet again on Thursday when she said at a public meeting that Modi’s meeting later today is scheduled on a ground that is the property of an individual who owns a microfinance company. She mentioned that the said meeting was at Mathurapur in South 24 Parganas.
“It is even more dangerous than chit fund companies. They are saying Saradha, Narada whenever they mention me, but look at whom he is associating himself with,” Banerjee said at a meeting in Mandirbazar today.
Microfinance services offer schemes including savings, insurance funds and credits to the poor and low income groups to help them increase income. Chit fund companies are basically savings schemes.
In the current context, microfinance companies being “more dangerous” than chit fund companies was used by Banerjee to indicate that the former had more danger of cheating people.
The Bengal CM showed a bunch of papers at the meeting and said she had all relevant documents and would ask the district police to start a case. “Now, since the election model code of condition is in vogue, I do not discuss these matters with the police, but I would hand over the documents to a relevant person to be given to the police for investigation,” she said.
Banerjee has a packed schedule of election meetings today after the Election Commission cut short the campaigning time by one day following trouble at College Street on May 14 at BJP chief Amit Shah’s rally. The EC also transferred two top officers from West Bengal – IPS officer Rajeev Kumar and home secretary Atri Bhattacharya.
Banerjee said she refused to bow down before the BJP’s threats and called the Election Commission the “BJP’s brother”.
BJP leaders were not available for comment. This article will be updated when their comments are available.
