NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday wrote a letter to external affairs minister S Jaishankar demanding a ban on Mamata Banerjee's travel to foreign countries in the capacity of West Bengal chief minister following "anti-India pitch" the TMC supremo made in UK. In a letter to Jaishankar, leader of opposition in the assembly Suvendu Adhikari accused Mamata of displaying devotion and admiration for the country’s colonial rulers. "West Bengal chief minister Smt.
Mamata Banerjee, who went to the UK recently, with the permission and approval of the ministry of external affairs, has brought unimaginable shame to our country, especially to the People of West Bengal. We hang our heads in utter shame as because our "so-called representative" has deliberately and repeatedly undermined our country on the international stage," the letter read. "Firstly, while meeting the business community of the UK during a business event in London, she stirred a controversy by praising the 'British Heritage' of '190-year British rule over India and Bengal'.
She fondly spoke about "emotional relation with the UK and remembered the colonial times as a blissful passage of time," it added. Adhikari also accused Mamata of undermining India's achievements on foreign soil after she differed with the prediction that India would become the world's first economy by 2060. "This was just not it.
She then did the unthinkable. Undermining India's achievements on foreign soil. During a Q&A session at the Kel.
