{"id":13169,"date":"2021-02-26T20:11:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T14:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=13169"},"modified":"2021-02-26T20:11:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T14:41:33","slug":"trinamool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/trinamool\/","title":{"rendered":"#IraniCopiesDidi : Trinamool mocks Smriti Irani\u2019s bike ride in Kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smriti Irani, Union Minister (Textiles and Women and Child Development ministries) on Friday drove a two-wheeler in a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally in Sonarpur, South 24 Parganas district, prompting the ruling Trinamool Congress to mock at her as &#8220;copying&#8221; Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. The Trinamool chief and Bengal CM had driven an electric scooter in Kolkata yesterday to protest the hike of fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-13127\" src=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/FB_IMG_1614238099723-162x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"896\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the Trinamool\u2019s page \u201cBanglar Gorbo Mamata\u201d, on Facebook, the party used a meme and wrote\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/iranicopiesdidi?__eep__=6&amp;__tn__=*NK*F\">#IraniCopiesDidi<\/a> <\/strong>and added \u201cCopy cat BJP, some originality please!\u201d On Thursday, Mamata Banerjee had a spin around the city on an electric scooter to protest the rising price of petrol, diesel and cooking gas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-13128\" src=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/FB_IMG_1614238155663-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"470\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Smriti Irani, however, did not drive an electric scooter. On her bike ride in West Bengal today, Bengal cabinet minister Firhad Hakim said: \u201cFor the BJP, the price of petrol and diesel is of no importance, and that\u2019s why they can ride those bikes.\u201d Yesterday, he drove the electric scooter with Mamata Banerjee being the pillion rider. Later in the day, Banerjee herself drove the scooter for sometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smriti Irani, Union Minister (Textiles and Women and Child Development ministries) on Friday drove a two-wheeler in a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally in Sonarpur, South 24 Parganas district, prompting the ruling Trinamool Congress to mock at her as &#8220;copying&#8221; Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. The Trinamool chief and Bengal CM had driven an electric scooter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":13170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[387,57,750,49,58,583,46],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation","8":"tag-assembly-elections-2021","9":"tag-bjp","10":"tag-fuel-price","11":"tag-mamata-banerjee","12":"tag-smriti-irani","13":"tag-top-story","14":"tag-trinamool-congress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13169"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=13169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}