KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘’Didi-O-Didi’’ comment whereas attacking West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has turn into Trinamool Congress’s political device to woo the ladies voters within the state who type 49 per cent of the full 7.2 crore electorates. The TMC on Sunday alleged the comment not solely humiliated Mamata but additionally insulted Bengal’s girls.
Whereas attacking the Bengal CM on the problem of the ruling get together’s alleged corruption and barring the Centre schemes, Modi most popular to make use of his newest comment in all of the rallies that he addressed in Bengal within the current previous. Aiming to achieve the help of ladies electorates, Modi used the newly coined comment (a Bengali-styled name to attract consideration) to spotlight how Mamata disadvantaged Bengal’s homemakers of the Centre’s consuming water mission.
‘‘The best way the Prime Minister used the comment is nothing apart from a taunt. It’s an insult to our chief minister, who’s the one girl administrative head of a state throughout the nation. He (Modi) additionally insulted Bengal’s girl by this comment. The best way he utters the comment, typically reducing voice abnormally, doesn’t match the Bengali type of searching for the eye of elder sisters,’’ stated TMC minister Shashi Panja.
A bit of BJP leaders admitted that Modi’s Didi-O-Didi comment has not gone down properly within the state. ‘‘The Prime Minister has good oratory expertise and it catches the eye of the lots. The BJP, on most events, will get advantages from Modi’s speech. However his newest use of Didi-O-Didi for Mamata Banerjee has not gone properly within the state’s girls electorates,’’ stated a pacesetter of the saffron camp’s Bengal chapter.
Sources within the TMC stated it requested the get together’s IT cell to flow into Modi’s newest comment portraying it as an insult to Bengal’s girls.
Eyeing the help of the ladies in Bengal, Mamata took a number of initiatives earlier than the elections and floated a brand new slogan Bangla Nijer Meyeke Chay (Bengal desires its personal daughter) to sharpen her assault on the BJP by branding her arch-rival as a celebration of outsiders. The slogan was aimed to painting Mamata because the chief ministerial candidate for the third-term in Bengal.
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She launched a brand new medical insurance scheme, Swastha Sathi, which was issued to the ladies member of a household. Within the manifesto, Mamata introduced month-to-month monetary grant of Rs 500 and Rs 1,00 for the ladies belong to SC/ST group and financially backward class.
‘‘All these strikes have been to woo the ladies electorates. Even throughout her election marketing campaign, she (Mamata) presents pranam to the toes of the ladies electorates as s image of gratitude when she describes her issue to handle rallies with damaged foot. When she is respecting the ladies of the state, Modi is insulting her along with his Didi-O-Didi comment. We’re going to miss this chance to strengthen our try and deliver the ladies voters in our fold,’’ stated a TMC chief.
