Govt is using army to achieve its political purpose: Mamata

December 09, 2016 17:18

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has hit back at Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar after he wrote a letter to the TMC chief expressing his displeasure over her allegations against the army for its recent exercise at toll gates in the state.

Attacking the government she said, "They are using the Army to achieve their political purpose."

"They don't know how to write a letter to a chief minister," she added.

Referring to Parrikar's letter, Mamata further said, "I take strong exception to your wild assertion."

Earlier, the defence minister wrote a letter to Mamata expressing 'deep pain' over her allegations and said they can 'adversely' impact the morale of the armed forces.

In a strongly-worded letter, Parrikar said that while political parties and politicians may have the luxury of making 'wild and unsubstantiated allegations against each other', one needs to be extremely careful while referring to the armed forces.

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