The chief minister was criticising the renaming of Gujarat’s Motera stadium.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday criticised the renaming of Gujarat’s Motera stadium, and said that some day, India might be renamed after Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On February 24, the newly-refurbished arena in Ahmedabad’s Motera area was renamed as the Narendra Modi Stadium. The announcement was made at the inauguration ceremony ahead of the third Test match between India and England. It was earlier called the Sardar Patel stadium. The West Bengal chief minister also criticised the use of Modi’s photo on coronavirus vaccine certificates, and said that it seemed like it was “Modi vaccine”. “Coronavirus vaccine [certificates] have his [Modi’s] photo. Is it a Covid-19 vaccine or a Modi vaccine,” Banerjee asked, during a International Women’s Day rally in Kolkata’s Dorina Crossing area. “It seems like Covid-19 vaccines have been turned into Modi vaccines. Stadiums, schools and colleges, vaccines…all of Bengal, India…one day, India’s name might be changed to Modi.
