{"id":14664,"date":"2021-04-04T19:14:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T13:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=14664"},"modified":"2022-06-07T11:05:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T05:35:47","slug":"trinamool-leaders-object-to-pm-modis-didi-oh-didi-phrase-tone-of-addressing-mamata-banerjee-in-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/trinamool-leaders-object-to-pm-modis-didi-oh-didi-phrase-tone-of-addressing-mamata-banerjee-in-rallies\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinamool leaders object to PM Modi&#8217;s &#8220;Didi-oh-Didi&#8221; phrase &#038; tone of addressing Mamata Banerjee in rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Trinamool Congress leader and Bengal minister Shashi Panja on Sunday addressed a press conference in Kolkata and said her party is objecting to the manner in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is addressing the Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee at public rallies by saying: \u201cDidi-oh-Didi\u201d. Panja said that though she respects the positions of the Prime Minister and the Union Home minister, she can\u2019t be respectful to the people who hold these chairs currently since they aren&#8217;t showing respect to others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the election, the way Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been addressing the chief minister of West Bengal, it appears that he is being belittling Mamata Banerjee. That is a cause of concern for us. He is insulting our beloved Didi. The way he has been heckling the chief minister, it is a matter of concern for all,\u201d said Panja.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/comment-like-rock-er-chhele-mahua-moitra-says-on-pm-modis-didi-oh-didi-phrase-at-poll-campaigns\/\" data-schema-attribute=\"\"><strong>Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra had a few days ago, raised the matter<\/strong><\/a> in an interview on NDTV, said that \u201cthere\u2019s something we have in Bengal called \u2018<em>rock-er chhele<\/em>\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 the Prime Minister doing this.\u201d 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 She asked \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>Meanwhile, on Sunday, Trinamool leaders Ananya Chakraborty and June Maliah also spoke in the same lines. \u201cNarendra Modi has insulted our chief minister. He has insulted the women of Bengal. The PM represents the country and the tone in which he addresses Mamata Banerjee is very disheartening. He is harassing her. Women have been soft targets always,\u201d said Maliah. Ananya Chakraborty said that the manner in which he addresses Mamata Banerjee has the impression of patriarchal mindset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Trinamool Congress leader and Bengal minister Shashi Panja on Sunday addressed a press conference in Kolkata and said her party is objecting to the manner in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is addressing the Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee at public rallies by saying: \u201cDidi-oh-Didi\u201d. Panja said that though she respects the positions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":10248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9],"tags":[387,57,807,392,49,92,583,46],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gender","8":"category-nation","9":"tag-assembly-elections-2021","10":"tag-bjp","11":"tag-gender-issues","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\/14664","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=14664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17068,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664\/revisions\/17068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14664"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=14664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}