Feel like giving Modi one tight slap of democracy: Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that she feels like giving one tight slap of democracy to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mamata Banerjee claimed that Narendra Modi deserved the slap for accusing her party Trinmool Congress of using extortion money. She likened the prime minister to Duryodhana, Dushayasana and Raavana.

Addressing a rally on Tuesday, TMC chief said, "When Modi comes to Bengal and says that I am a top extortionist, I wish to give him one tight slap of democracy." Mamata Banerjee said that her party is run with money collected from the sale of her paintings, books and other work undertaken by her party as opposed to the extortion money as claimed by the BJP.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee in Purulia: Money doesn't matter to me.That is why when Narendra Modi came to Bengal and accused my party of being Tolabaaz (Toll collector), I wanted to



give him a tight slap of democracy

Mamata Banerjee's statement came in reaction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders'claim that TMC in Bengal is run on syndicate money.

The BJP campaign in West Bengal has been focussed on painting the ruling party in the state as corrupt and dominated by goons. BJP has time and again accused Mamata Banerjee and TMC of throttling democracy under syndicate raj. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who was in Kolkata today, told news agency ANI that Mamata Banerjee's syndicate morcha was influencing the elections.

"In spite of central forces coming and assuring the voters that their presence will make a difference, Didi's syndicate morcha people are all over the place. Mamata Banerjee screams about democracy, she is the one who is violating democracy," Nirmala Sitharaman was quoted in media as saying.