TMC TMC MLA says Modi will face the same fate as Sri Lanka prez Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Kolkata: A Trinamool Congress MLA has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have to face the same fate as Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was forced to flee on Saturday as protesters stormed his official residence demanding his resignation amid a deepening economic crisis, media reports said.
The comment was made by TMC MLA Idris Ali after party chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was not invited to the inauguration ceremony of the Sealdah metro station in Kolkata, India Today reported.
The ceremony is scheduled for July 11 when Union minister Smriti Irani will inaugurate the new metro station.
Ali said excluding Mamata Banerjee from the event was an injustice as the project was initiated by her while serving as the railway minister.
The ruling TMC in Bengal is furious as no one from the state government has been invited to the inaugural ceremony, the report said.
In May, Mamata Banerjee was excluded from an official program chaired by home minister Amit Shah at the Victoria Memorial.
The TMC has accused the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre of divisive politics.
The BJP, on the other hand, has pointed out that the TMC government started the tradition of excluding the opposition by not inviting BJP MLAs and MPs to state government programs.
Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence Saturday as thousands of anti-government protesters stormed into his residence demanding his resignation amid the country's worst-ever economic crisis.
Later, on Saturday, reports said that Rajapaksa will resign next Wednesday, after months of protest as the people blamed the government headed by him for destroying the country's economy.
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