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Last Updated at March 8, 2021 07:25 IST
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a public rally at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on Sunday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused Mamata Banerjee of "betraying and insulting" the people of West Bengal, provoking an angry retort from the chief minister, who called him a "liar". Addressing his first rally in West Bengal at Kolkata's Brigade Parade Ground after the announcement of state Assembly polls, Modi accused Banerjee of nepotism by choosing to play the insular role of "bua" (aunt) to her "bhatija" (nephew) instead of becoming "Didi" (elder sister) to the people.
Nearly 600 km away in North Bengal's Siliguri, the TMC supremo held a foot march and addressed a rally where she alleged the prime minister was "peddling lies to mislead voters" in her state, where eight-phase polling would take place between March 27 and April 29.
Meanwhile, in other developments, US State Secretary Antony Blinken has written to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani proposing a United Nations-facilitated peace conference with representatives of six countries, including India, to discuss a "unified approach to supporting peace in Afghanistan".
In the letter sent to Ghani, Blinken said that Turkey would be approached to host a senior-level meeting of both sides in the coming weeks to finalise a peace agreement.
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