Banerjee shows flags – Bengal is being isolated ahead of polls: Didi Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday clicked an undated photograph of PM Modi and President Draupadi Murmu sitting at an event and called it “proof” of who actually shows respect, even as she refuted his allegation that the TMC government had “grossly insulted” the President’s chair by violating protocol in Siliguri. “Why were you sitting when she was standing?” Mamata said from her SIR protest platform. The CM said, “We respect every person holding constitutional posts.

” If anything goes wrong in the programme, the Center should be held responsible. Don’t blame us.

” Will celebrate Women’s Day a thousand times. We have been celebrating it since childhood. You don’t have the right to criticize us.

” Chief Secretary Nandini Chakraborty, who received a letter from Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan seeking an explanation for the “protocol violation”, sources said, responded formally in the evening. The controversy appeared to unite the opposition behind the TMC. Congress’s Supriya Shrinate said the President’s office should not be used to “push the BJP’s political agenda”.