{"id":311008,"date":"2019-04-03T15:29:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T15:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311008"},"modified":"2019-04-03T15:29:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T15:29:54","slug":"expiry-babu-mamata-banerjees-response-to-pm-modis-speed-breaker-dig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/expiry-babu-mamata-banerjees-response-to-pm-modis-speed-breaker-dig\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Expiry Babu\u2019: Mamata Banerjee\u2019s response to PM Modi\u2019s \u2018speed breaker\u2019 dig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305725 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-631x420.jpg 631w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister on Wednesday engaged in the battle for the state&#8217;s 42 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At a rally in Siliguri PM Modi had criticised Mamata Banerjee&#8217;s government,\u00a0calling her the &#8220;speed breaker&#8221; in the path of the state&#8217;s development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDidi is speed-breaker for your development,\u201d Modi said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee responded to Prime Minister Modi alternately calling him \u201cexpiry Babu\u201d and \u201cexpiry PM\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Banerjee questioned Modi of what his government has done for the welfare of people of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She challenged him to participate in a direct debate with her in television or in a public rally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u2018I am not Modi, I don\u2019t tell lies,\u2019 Banerjee said, alleging that PM Modi has made false claims on the performance of TMC government in West Bengal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She claimed that 12,000 farmers committed suicide during Modi rule in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Banerjee said that her government has implemented several welfare schemes for the people of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister on Wednesday engaged in the battle for the state&#8217;s 42 seats. At a rally in Siliguri PM Modi had criticised Mamata Banerjee&#8217;s government,\u00a0calling her the &#8220;speed breaker&#8221; in the path of the state&#8217;s development. \u201cDidi is speed-breaker for your development,\u201d Modi said.\u00a0 West Bengal Chief Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[1889,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311009,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311008\/revisions\/311009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}