Mamata hits out at media for distorting her comments

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at a section of the media for ‘distorting’ her comments on fighting dengue and said they needed ‘counselling’.

Banerjee said that while speaking to the media on Wednesday said that she had said many things on fighting dengue, but some television channels picked out a comment she made on dieting.

“These days there are so many distortions that I do not feel like talking. While speaking I will speak the way I want to. It is my habit. But some channels picked up one comment and quoted me as supposedly saying that dieting leads to dengue,” the chief minister said while speaking at a teachers’day programme.

“Why should I assume the role of a doctor? I do not have a doctor’s knowledge,” she said.