Mamata Banerjee's ‘poisonous snake’ dig at BJP during Lok Sabha poll rally in Bengal’s Cooch Behar

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The Cooch Behar district on Thursday witnessed a back-to-back Lok Sabha campaign battle between Mamata Banerjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying that even a poisonous snake can be trusted, but not the ruling party..

You can trust a poisonous snake, you can even pet itbut you can never trust the BJPThe BJP is destroying the country, Banerjee said while addressing a rally in Bengal's Cooch Behar..

Banerjee continued her attack on the ruling party and slammed it for nominating former Cooch Behar SP Debashis Dhar as its candidate from Birhum, asserting that Dhar was responsible for killing five people during the 2021 assembly polls...

After Mamata's dig at the saffron party, PM Modi said, I first want to thank West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee because, in 2019, I was here to address a rally on the same ground, she installed a big stage in the middle of this ground to reduce the space (for the rally), so that people could not listen to Modi..

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