KOLKATA: The Congress and the CPM trained its guns on Mamata Banerjee days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an interview to Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, said that the Bengal Chief Minister "personally" selected kurtas and sent him as gifts. While senior Congress leader Raj Babbar said he wondered how the Trinamool chief knew the "size of Modi's kurtas", CPM General Secretary Sitaram Yechury alleged that there was a secret pact between Bengal's ruling party and the BJP, and "kushti (wrestling) in Bengal and dosti (friendship) in Delhi" won't work. PM Modi on Wednesday in a "non-political" interview claimed that he has many "good friends" in the Opposition, including Mamata Banerjee, who sent him kurtas and Bengali sweets.

Raj Babbar said told reporters in Kolkata on Friday "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 to any of 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 the PM's kurta,". The Congress leader drew flak from Trinamool's Partha Chatterjee, who said that the film star (Raj Babbar) did not know courtesy. "He is not as experienced in politics, as he is in cinema. He doesn't know courtesy. He does not understand that courtesy and politics are not same," said the Trinamool leader.

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To be noted that questioning the Trinamool chief's anti-BJP stand, Raj Babbar accused her of helping the BJP's growth in Bengal. He alleged that the ruling party in Bengal resorted to violence as it was afraid of defeat if polls were free and fair. "It is shameful that the party (Trinamool) doesn't have any respect for democratic norms," he claimed. Senior Left leader Sitaram Yechury too questioned the need of keeping the gifts from Mamata Banerjee a hush-hush and wondered why PM Modi spoke about it only now.

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