New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday in a candid conversation with actor Akshay Kumar revealed that Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sends him kurtas and sweets three-four times a year.
“People will be surprised and I should not say this in the election season, but Mamata didi sends me gifts every year. She still sends me one or two kurtas a year,” PM Modi told Akshay Kumar.
#WATCH PM Narendra Modi during interaction with Akshay Kumar, speaks on his friends in opposition parties, especially Ghulam Nabi Azad & Mamata Banerjee pic.twitter.com/8GkqrHpqXv
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PM Modi further added that Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sent him new types of sweets every year.
“Once Mamata didi found out, she also started sending me sweets once or twice a year,” he told Akshay in a hearty conversation.
Interestingly, Prime Minister’s comment came a day after PM Modi attacked Mamata Banerjee at a rally in Bengal’s Asansol:
“Our didi, contesting a handful of seats, is dreaming of becoming Prime Minister. If the PM’s post could be auctioned, then the Congress and didi would come with whatever they have looted through corruption. Didi, yeh PM pad auction mein nahi hai jo Sharda, Narada ke paiso se kharida jaa sake (this post is not on auction that it can be bought from the money from Sharada and Narada). One needs the blessings of 130 crore Indians to get to the post.” The speech also featured another phrase he has used to attack the Chief Minister in these polls: ‘Speed-breaker didi’.
He also talked about his relations with the opposition leaders recalling an instance with Ghulam Nabi Azad. He said when he was Chief Minister of Gujarat, he once had a friendly chat with Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, which had the media wondering.
“Ghulam Nabi Azad and I have had several chai sessions and people are surprised how an RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) person like me is friends with Azad,” he said.