Senior Congress leader Raj Babbar on Friday took a jibe at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who the Prime Minister claimed gifted him kurtas and sweets, saying how the TMC chief knew the size of Modi’s kurta.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in a recent interview with Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar claimed that he has many good friends in the opposition including Mamata Banerjee, who sent personally-selected kurtas and sweets to him.
“Two products from West Bengal are famous across the world. One is sweets made of cottage cheese and another is the ‘kurta’. But till date, Mamata ji has not sent these two to us or anyone else. If she wants to gift them, she sends it to only one person. So you can understand that she knows the size of a kurta. Earlier, we used to raise questions if the size of his chest is 56 inches or not,” Babbar said while addressing a press conference in Kolkata.
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“Mamata didi saal me aaj bhi mujhe ek-do kurte wo khud select karne jati hain (even today Mamata didi herself selects one-two Kurtas for me in the year). She sends one-two Kurtas for me. Even Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sends sweets to me three-four times in a year especially from Dhaka. When Mamata didi got to know this, then she also started sending sweets for me one or two times in a year,” the Prime Minister had said in the interview with the Bollywood actor.
Interestingly, Mamata has been critical about Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government. And both the leaders have been indulged in the war of words against each other in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Raj Babbar is contesting from Fatehpur Sikri Lok Sabha seat which went to polls in the second phase on April 18.