Arun Jaitley says Mamata Banerjee’s strategy is to ‘hog center stage’ through her ‘dharna’ 

Arun Jaitley. 

Union minister Arun Jaitley spoke on the Mamata Banerjee and her stand-off with the Centre over the CBI’s probe into the chit-fund scam, he said that this is her strategy to project herself as the central point of the opposition and “defocus” its leaders.

In a Facebook post titled “The Kleptocrat’s Club”, Jaitley wrote: “It would be a gross error to assume that she (Mamata) did this because of a routine investigation involving a Police Officer. She did it to defocus from other opposition aspirants for the highest office and to project herself as the nucleus of India’s opposition. Her speeches attack Prime Minister Modi, but her strategy is aimed to defocus some of her other colleagues in the Opposition and hogging the centre stage [sic].”

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