{"id":3794,"date":"2019-01-06T10:31:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T05:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=3794"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:48","slug":"if-anyone-from-bengal-becomes-pm-it-will-be-mamata-bjp-state-chiefs-birthday-wish-for-the-bengal-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/if-anyone-from-bengal-becomes-pm-it-will-be-mamata-bjp-state-chiefs-birthday-wish-for-the-bengal-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"If anyone from Bengal becomes PM, it will be Mamata: BJP state chief\u2019s \u201cbirthday wish\u201d for the Bengal CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party\u2019s (BJP) West Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh, on Saturday wished chief minister Mamata Banerjee on her birthday with the message that if anyone could be Prime Minister from Bengal, it would be Banerjee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish her sound health and success in life. She is Bengal\u2019s face. If anyone from Bengal gets to become Prime Minister, that would be Mamata. Jyoti<em>babu<\/em> missed the chance by a whisker. His party didn\u2019t let him become Prime Minister. We had Pranab Mukherjee as President of India,\u201d Ghosh said on Banerjee\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Such a statement from the BJP\u2019s Bengal president has shocked many. It made some people &#8212; including those from within the BJP &#8212; wonder what had made him say so, when Ghosh on a regular basis lashed out at Mamata Banerjee, her government and her party, the Trinamool Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Some thought these words were \u201ca bit too kind\u201d to come from an Opposition leader even if meant as a \u201cbirthday wish\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party\u2019s (BJP) West Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh, on Saturday wished chief minister Mamata Banerjee on her birthday with the message that if anyone could be Prime Minister from Bengal, it would be Banerjee. \u201cI wish her sound health and success in life. She is Bengal\u2019s face. If anyone from Bengal gets to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":3795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794","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\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3794"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=3794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}