NEW DELHI: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday responded sharply to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s criticism of opposition events together with TMC over the failure of the ladies’s reservation Invoice.In a protracted message shared on social media, she accused the Prime Minister of deceptive the nation as an alternative of addressing considerations instantly. She additionally defended her social gathering, the All India Trinamool Congress, saying it had persistently supported girls’s political illustration.“It’s deeply unlucky that the Prime Minister selected to mislead the nation relatively than deal with it truthfully,” she wrote, including that the Trinamool Congress had one of many highest proportions of girls representatives in Parliament and the state legislature. “The query of opposing girls’s reservation doesn’t come up and by no means has,” she stated.Mamta, nevertheless, made it clear that her social gathering opposes the proposed delimitation train alleging that the Centre was making an attempt to push it utilizing girls’s reservation as a canopy for political acquire. “What we’re essentially against is the delimitation train that the Modi authorities was plotting to push via by utilizing girls as a protect for its vested political agenda,” she wrote.Claiming that such steps would alter the Structure, she stated, “That is an assault on federal democracy. And we is not going to watch it occur in silence.” Questioning the timing of the invoice, the West Bengal CM requested why the federal government delayed implementation of the invoice after its passage in September 2023 and why it was being linked to delimitation. She additionally criticised the Prime Minister for not addressing Parliament instantly. “The subsequent time you deal with the nation, have the braveness to take action from the ground of Parliament,” she wrote, calling his remarks “cowardly, hypocritical and fork-tongued.”“What you probably did yesterday was cowardly, hypocritical and fork-tongued. You’ll be able to really feel energy slipping via your fingers. And you are ready to go to any extent to carry on for just a bit whereas longer,” she stated.Her response got here after PM Modi, in his deal with to the nation on Saturday night time, blamed opposition events for blocking the invoice. “For us, nationwide curiosity comes first. However for some individuals, when social gathering curiosity turns into every part, then girls’s empowerment and the nation’s curiosity undergo,” he stated, including that “the egocentric politics of events like Congress, DMK, TMC and SP has value the ladies of this nation.”