CPI-M's West Bengal Secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra on Friday ridiculed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Prime minister Narendra Modi, saying both were competing to produce serials.
"Both are doing serials one after the other. They are almost competing with each other. At a time when people are in deep distress, unemployment is going up, there is crisis in agriculture and industry, there is no job security in information technology and manufacturing sectors, they are only doing serials," Mishra said.
Ridiculing broadcast of administrative meetings chaired by Banerjee in the districts, the Communist Party of India-Marxist leader said: "This is something new she has come up with. We have seen some serials. We will wait for the next episode."
He said at the Centre the Modi government was "doing drama with cows and buffaloes". "At a time when people are not even looking after their elderly parents, they are being asked to look after cows."
Banerjee has pulled up ministers, party lawmakers, leaders, police and bureaucrats during administrative meetings, which are telecast live on different news channels.
Mishra also slammed Banerjee for declaring that her government will enact a law to ban meetings and rallies in the city's education hub, the College Square.
Hours after the Chief Minister's announcement, the city police clamped restrictions on meetings and rallies in and around the area, which houses Presidency University, Calcutta University and Calcutta Medical College and Hospital.
The area has also been a traditional site for meetings and protests organised by students and political parties since pre-independence days.
"If she passes such illegal laws, we will break those laws," said Mishra.
"I don't know whether she has studied in the hub; but there have been lot of students who have studied in this hub or its vicinity and then went on to run this country, this state or other states," the CPI-M leader remarked.
"There are many instances. She has no sense about the hub, its tradition of student politics. She can't silence the voices of protests in this way," he added.
--IANS
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