West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for inaugurating the Vande Bharat Express a day after the Pulwama terror attack and said the Centre should have declared a three-day mourning period.
 
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“We must consider that this is a national issue. We have to look at it seriously. No one must do politics with it. However, politics has started over this. Even today, the Prime Minister inaugurated a railway project. If anything serious happens, we must not (hold such events). We should avoid political and government programmes. Why did they (Centre) not declare three days’ mourning? They only declare three days’ mourning when political leaders die. I demand 72 hours of mourning for the soldiers who sacrificed their lives. Only one flag (national) is not enough for them,” she told reporters at the state secretariat after returning from Delhi.
The chief minister also said she wanted to express solidarity with the victims of the terror attack.