Didi sends gifts to all leaders, not just Modi: Trinamool Congress

In a recent interview with film star Akshay Kumar, for all gall and bitterness outside, that Mamata Banerjee is friendly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a secret, released from the bag by PM Modi.

Coming in the midst of a no-holds-barred election campaign, the claim of PM Modi caught completely flat-footed Trinamool Congress.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a freewheeling interview with Akshay Kumar that Didi (what many call Mamata Banerjee) keeps sending him sweets, the most chosen by Bengal on several occasions, over and above presenting him with hand-loom kurtas from Bengal.

The revelation of the Prime Minister sent the scurrying Trinamool for cover. With Mamata Banerjee trying to hold on to the 28 percent minority voters in West Bengal, her friendly gestures toward Narendra Modi may aggravate her relationship with the state’s minorities.

Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress have already been accused by the Left of welcoming the Bharatiya Janata Party and dividing the people into religious lines.

Such courteous gestures are part of the compassionate and warm-hearted nature of Didi and should not be seen through the prism of politics.

Didi continues to send former President Pranab Mukherjee the most chosen mangoes, sweets, and kurtas every year, according to Trinamool Congress leaders, and she takes Sandesh whenever she visits him. As she continues to send sweets and mangoes to President Ram Nath Kovind, she has also sent Modi mangoes and sweets.