West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with former Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy at Nabanna in Howrah on Thursday August 18, 2022.
Photo: IANS
Hitting out at a Twitter user on the longevity of a communist government, Swamy noted that he now needed “a telescope plus microscope to locate the committees in Bengal”.
The two leaders have long enjoyed a cordial relationship, with Swamy earlier comparing Banerjee to Jayprakash Narayan, Moraji Desai, Chandrashekhar, Rajiv Gandhi and PV Narasimha Rao. Recently, he had called her an “intelligent leader” and asserted that it was necessary to recognize talent “even if we have ideological differences.”
The two leaders had met earlier in August this year, with Swamy heaping praise on the “charismatic” TMC chief.
“I admired her fight against CPM in which she destroyed the communist (sic),” he had tweeted while sharing a photo.
