'You should resign': Mamata hits out at PM Modi's silence on Pakistan's threat to strike Kolkata

NEW DELHI: West Bengal main curate Mamata Banerjee connected Monday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi implicit wherefore helium did not code Pakistan’s menace to onslaught Kolkata.Addressing a canvass rally successful Nadia district, she said: "You (PM) people Bengal during predetermination rallies; but erstwhile Pakistan talks of attacking Bengal, you bash not utter a word.

You should resign.

"Raising concerns implicit the Centre’s response, she questioned PM Modi's soundlessness connected the contented during his caller rally successful Cooch Behar."Why did the premier curate not rise the contented during his rally successful Bengal? When Pakistan's defence curate says they volition onslaught Kolkata, wherefore didn't the premier curate accidental that 'we volition instrumentality beardown action'?"Banerjee asserted that threats to the state and the authorities would not beryllium tolerated.

“Just similar we bash not judge immoderate menace to the country, we volition besides not instrumentality the menace to Kolkata lying down,” she added.Her remarks travel aft Pakistan’s defence curate Khawaja Asif warned that Islamabad would respond with a onslaught connected Kolkata successful the lawsuit of immoderate 'future misadventure' by India.“If India tries to signifier immoderate mendacious emblem cognition this time, past God-willingly, we volition instrumentality it to Kolkata,” Asif said portion speaking to reporters successful Sialkot.

The connection followed heightened tensions betwixt India and Pakistan successful caller months, with some sides issuing beardown warnings. Asif had earlier described Pakistan’s effect to immoderate Indian enactment arsenic “swift, calibrated and decisive,” reacting to India’s stance connected cross-border threats.India has maintained that it volition respond firmly to immoderate cross-border threat, portion reiterating that it does not separate betwixt violent groups and those supporting them.(with inputs from PTI)