West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday called the meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi a ‘super flop’, one that insulted chief ministers. “All were sitting like puppets,” said Banerjee, who just started her third straight term as chief minister.

“If states were not allowed to speak, why were they called. All the Chief Ministers must protest for not being allowed to speak,” Banerjee said after PM Modi’s interaction with DM’s of 10 States, reports ANI.

Banerjee complained that nobody was allowed to speak and the reason for this, according to her, was that the PM was ‘insecure’.

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“The Prime Minister called a meeting and invited the chief ministers. And all the chief ministers were sitting like puppets. Nobody was allowed to speak…We are not bonded labourers. We feel insulted and humiliated. A dictatorship is going on. The Prime Minister is feeling so insecure that he did not even listen to the chief ministers,” Banerjee, who had earlier skipped many such meetings, told reporters.

The West Bengal Chief Minister also hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government for allegedly dumping bodies of suspected COVID patients in river Ganga. Why are central teams or the CBI are not being sent there to take note of the incident, she asked.

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Banerjee is the second chief minister to complain about not being heard at PM’s meetings. Earlier this month, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren had alleged that PM Modi did not listen to him during a telephonic conversation. “It was just a ‘monologue’  from him,” Soren said.