Mamata, Bhagel skip as PM Modi discusses Covid situation with CMs ROZANA SPOKESMAN
Updated Mar 17, 2021, 2:00 pm IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a virtual meeting with chief ministers to take stock of the situation.
Narendra Modi
New Delhi: Amid the surge of coronavirus cases in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a virtual meeting with chief ministers to take stock of the situation. PM Modi’s last interaction with CMs was in January, just before the vaccination roll-out.
Narendra Modi
Mamata Banerjee and Bhupesh Baghel, Chief Ministers of West Bengal and Chhattisgarh, respectively, decided to opt-out of the meeting.
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BALARAMPUR: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee has been forced to take to Chandi Path publicly and visit temples due to the change in people s mindset after the BJP came to power at the Centre.
He also criticised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his visits to temples in poll-bound states.
Speaking at an election rally at Balarampur in Purulia district, the star campaigner of the saffron party said, a sect of people was created in the country, before the BJP-led government assumed power at the Centre in 2014, who believed that even visiting temples would pose a threat to their secular credentials.
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Claiming that Shah is getting frustrated by poor turnout at his rallies, Banerjee also alleged that the BJP is plotting conspiracies to kill her as her security director Vivek Sahay was removed by the Election Commission after she sustained injuries last week in Purba Medinipur s Nandigram.