MAMATA SHOULD RISE ABOVE PETTY POLITICS: YOGI

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday launched a Twitter attack on his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee and said she should rise above “petty politics” amid Cyclone Yaas and work with the nation to provide relief to people.

In a set of two tweets, he said “Honorable PM @narendramodi ji and the entire nation stand with the people of Bengal. @MamataOfficial should rise above petty politics, shed her ego and work with the nation to provide relief to the people of Bengal.

He further said: “Non-cooperation by @MamataOfficial with Centre is blatant violation of constitutional norms & against the ethos of cooperative federalism. Absence from PM’s meeting shows her insensitivity towards welfare and betterment of people of Bengal at difficult times due to Cyclone Yaas.”

Earlier in the day, Banerjee skipped a review meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi where West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, BJP’s Nandigram MLA and leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, and Raiganj MP Debasree Chaudhuri were also present.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also conducted an aerial survey of the cyclone-affected areas in West Bengal and Odisha.