TIL Desk/National/Kolkata/ West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has took a jibe at the Centre over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remark that a person selling pakodas (fritters) is employed, and said steps like demonetisation and GST by the NDA government have destroyed all business opportunities in the country including those of the”pakoda sellers”.
“First they have destroyed people’s savings in the name of demonetisation and then burdened the people with taxes even on small items. Now they are asking people to eat pakodas and sell pakodas.
But how would people do that?”Banerjee said at a public meeting in Nadia district. “Even a pakoda seller must have some capacity to make and sell them. All the business opportunities have been destroyed,”she fumed.
Accusing the BJP of trying to divide people of Bengal along communal lines, Banerjee said Hindus do not need to listen to BJP’s lecture on Hinduism.
“Please do not get involved in any communal riots. Do not listen to BJP and attack anybody’s house. BJP is a political party born in 1984, how can they lecture us about the origin of Hinduism? Hindu religion is into existence for thousands of years,”Banerjee said.
