{"id":14562,"date":"2021-04-02T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=14562"},"modified":"2021-04-02T13:28:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T07:58:36","slug":"comment-like-rock-er-chhele-mahua-moitra-says-on-pm-modis-didi-oh-didi-phrase-at-poll-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/comment-like-rock-er-chhele-mahua-moitra-says-on-pm-modis-didi-oh-didi-phrase-at-poll-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment like \u201crock-er chhele\u201d Mahua Moitra says on PM Modi\u2019s \u201cDidi-oh-Didi\u201d phrase at poll campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Thursday said that \u201cthere\u2019s something we have in Bengal called \u2018rock-er chhele\u2019, which means a street-side fellow who sits on a wall and who basically calls out to every lady walking past, saying \u201cDiddi, ei diddi\u201d. This is Prime Minister doing this,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/west-bengal-assembly-election-2021-street-side-fellow-who-sits-on-a-wall-mahua-moitra-on-pms-didi-o-didi-remark-2404385?pfrom=home-ndtv_topscroll\" data-schema-attribute=\"\"><strong>she told NDTV in an interview<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been addressing poll campaigns and has repeated the phrase \u201cDidi-oh-Didi\u201d in a way that has made many uncomfortable. However, this is possibly the first time this has been protested against openly by anyone from Bengal\u2019s ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>In the said interview, when asked whether she meant it was a catcall, Moitra responded saying: \u201cDon\u2019t take it out of context. Please. But doesn\u2019t it sound like that? What does it sound like?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added \u201cHow is that okay? Is this Prime Minister going to come and teach us about decorum? This is a Prime Minister sitting here chortling a sitting chief minister in the cheapest, basest way possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Modi has sneered and jeered at Banerjee in various public meetings with the line, even at Uluberia on Friday, when 30 seats in Bengal went to the polls in the second phase, including Nandigram, from where Mamata Banerjee is contesting against her once close aide, now BJP candidate Suvendu Adhikari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Thursday said that \u201cthere\u2019s something we have in Bengal called \u2018rock-er chhele\u2019, which means a street-side fellow who sits on a wall and who basically calls out to every lady walking past, saying \u201cDiddi, ei diddi\u201d. This is Prime Minister doing this,\u201d she told NDTV in an interview. Prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":14563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[387,57,582,132,392,49,92,583,46],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14562","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-cover-story","11":"tag-gender","12":"tag-mahua-moitra","13":"tag-mamata-banerjee","14":"tag-narendra-modi","15":"tag-top-story","16":"tag-trinamool-congress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14562","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=14562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14562"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=14562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}