Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamatha Benarjee urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi Don’t insult me like this, she accused the PM’s office on Saturday of feeding fake, one-sided, partisan news to the media. She hit back Modi’s government a day after a bitter face-off over a meeting to review the damage from cyclone.

Speaking to the media persons on Saturday Mamatha Benarjee said that we have got a landslide victory, is that why you are behaving like this? You tried everything and lost. Why are you quarrelling with us every day? She said that she has to visit a coastal district, which plans were announced earlier.

So she asked the permission from PM before leaving the airbase. She also said, I had to travel to Sagar and Digha to see the damage caused by Cyclone Yaas. All my plans were made and ready… then suddenly we get a call that Prime Minister wants to visit Bengal to assess the situation after the cyclone.”

Mamatha also alleged that the Prime Minister Modi had called the meeting only to settle political scores and invited the opposition, which includes his party BJP, and her bête noire, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar – a departure from the similar cyclone review meetings he had held in Odisha and Gujarat recently.

She made it clear that, she had to wait for Prime Minister at the tarmac for 20 minutes. She clarified that the central government’s claim is not true that she made the Modi and Governor Wait for 30 minutes. Mamatha Benarjee said that, I and Chief Secretary decided to go to the conference hall, after someone saying that the PM’s meeting has moved to the conference hall.

When we reached there, we saw the PM was in a meeting with the Honourable Governor, central leaders and even some MLAs of the opposition party,” she said. “This was clearly against the brief. It was supposed to be only a PM-CM meeting. So, we decided to submit our report to the PM and then with the Prime Minister’s permission we went to Digha. I sought the Prime Minister’s permission three times,” she said.

She also said, she was willing to touch the Prime Minister’s feed if is soothed his ego; she wanted which is the best for the people of Bengal. Mamatha requested the Prime Minister to withdraw the transfer orders for the Chief Secretary and called it an insult of bureaucrats across the country.