Jharkhand Chief Minister The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has claimed that Hemant Soren and his wife were denied permission to land their helicopter in West Bengal’s Jhargram on Sunday due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s unscheduled stop at Jalmuri.
The party said Soren and MLA Kalpana Soren were kept waiting for hours and were eventually forced to return to Ranchi due to Modi’s “long break for snacks and photo ops”.
Because Pradhan Sevak decided to extend his stay Jhargram eats Jhalmuri, Jharkhand Chief Minister Shri Hemant Soren and his wife and MLA Smt. Kalpana Soren was refused permission to fly their helicopter to Jhargram during Modi’s presence.”
“Two democratically elected leaders. They were stopped. They were kept waiting for hours. They were finally forced to return to Ranchi without completing their scheduled programme, all because of the Prime Minister’s long break for snacks and photo ops,” they added.
“This is the respect Modi has for Adivasi leaders. This is the respect he has for elected representatives who do not kneel before him,” the TMC said.
Sunday, Modi stopped at a roadside stall in Jhargram during his election campaign. “Jhalmuri Break in Jhargram” posted on X with a video.
In the video, he was seen asking the vendor for a snack, saying: “Bhai, hame apna Jhalmuri khilao,” before asking the price and paying with a card. $10 note. A crowd of people gathered at the place, raising slogans like “Jai Shri Ram”, “Narendra Modi Zindabad” and “Bharat Mata Ki Jai”.
In another post, Modi said he stopped to eat a “delicious jhalmori” between four rallies in West Bengal.
“He came to Jhargram to attract Adivasi vote,” the TMC said in its post later on Sunday. The party claimed that the Prime Minister’s “Adivasi-Birudi mentality” has been exposed.
“Bengals saw it. Bengals will remember it on May 4th.”
Bengal will go to the polls in two phases on April 23 and April 29. The results will be announced on May 4.
Modi said speaking in Jhargram The Transitional Military Council aims to form a government “of infiltrators and infiltrators.” He portrayed the elections as a battle to protect Bengal’s identity and accused the party of failing the tribal areas.
