Varanasi won’t call you outsider: PM Modi
Monotosh Chakraborty & Falguni Banerjee | TNN | Updated: Apr 4, 2021, 06:49 IST
SONARPUR/ HARIPAL: PM Modi used his weekend election rallies in Hooghly’s Haripal and South 24 Parganas’ Sonarpur to return Trinamool’s “bohiragoto (outsider)” fire by saying the West Bengal CM was welcome to contest polls from Varanasi without having to face xenophobia.
“Didi, the people of Varanasi and UP are large-hearted like the people of Bengal. They will not call you bohiragato. You will get to meet alot oftilakwallahs andchotiwallahs there. They will chant ‘Har Har Mahadev’. But they, along with others in Varanasi, will give you love. They may make you stay there,” the PM said at the Sonarpur rally in what was evidently a response to the declaration by Trinamool leaders that Mamata would, after defeating BJP in Bengal, take on Modi in his LS constituency of Varanasi.