“Does anybody who meditates do it in front of a camera? He basically wants to show his meditation to people. The place is good. Swami Vivekananda loved this place. He (Modi) will meditate there. He says he is God. Why should he meditate then…?” Banerjee said at Baruipur in the Jadavpur constituency while campaigning for the last phase of the elections, scheduled for June 1.

The TMC supremo said telecasting Modi’s meditation would violate the code of conduct in place for the Lok Sabha polls. “He cannot campaign like this. He can meditate but that cannot be telecast. That will be a violation of the model code of conduct and we will complain to the ECI.”

Modi is set to visit the Vivekananda Rock Memorial located off the coast of Kanniyakumari in Tamil Nadu on Thursday. He will meditate at the revered Dhyan Mandapam for three days.

Banerjee also attacked the Opposition CPM and the BJP, accusing them of having cut a deal in the Dum Dum constituency, where the battle is between three heavyweights—the TMC’s Saugata Roy, Congress-backed CPM candidate Sujan Chakraborty and the BJP’s Shilabhadra Dutta.

“There is an agreement between the CPI(M) and BJP camps to defeat the Trinamool,” Banerjee alleged. “In this Lok Sabha election, the BJP will transfer their votes to the Left and in the Baranagar Assembly bypoll, the Left will transfer their votes to the BJP.”

However, Sujan Chakraborty questioned the TMC chief’s claim. He said, “Why did the chief minister not say this when she came to Dum Dum. Why did she say this at Baruipur? Does she have any other equation? She has realised that the TMC will be defeated both in Dum Dum and Jadavpur.”

BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya also said Banerjee had realised that the TMC would lose Dum Dum. “Last time we lost in Dum Dum because of a small mistake, only by 53,000 votes. This time we will win Dum Dum,” he added.