Mamata demands PM’s resignation over silence on Pak’s ‘threat’

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday asked why Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not raise Pakistan’s threat to attack Kolkata, during his poll rallies in West Bengal a day earlier.

“You (PM) target Bengal during election rallies; but when Pakistan talks of attacking Bengal, you do not utter a word. You should resign,” she said at a poll rally here in Nadia district.

“Why did the prime minister not raise the issue during his rally in Bengal? When Pakistan’s defence minister says they will attack Kolkata, why didn’t the prime minister say that ‘we will take strong action’?” she posed a day after Modi addressed a poll rally in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar.