Modi, Mamata spar over fish as Bengal poll campaign heats up

As the predetermination run gained momentum successful West Bengal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Thursday (April 9, 2026) targeted each different connected a fig of issues, but food accumulation and depletion emerged arsenic an antithetic menace successful the governmental slugfest betwixt the 2 leaders.

Speaking astatine the coastal municipality of Haldia successful State’s Purba Medinipur district, the Prime Minister spoke of West Bengal not being self-sufficient successful food production.