BJP Shares Foreign Media Reports On Messi Chaos, Says Mamata Govt Made Kolkata A ‘Global Laughingstock’

The BJP on Sunday intensified its attack on the Mamata Banerjee administration over the chaos at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium during an event featuring football legend Lionel Messi, sharing foreign media coverage and alleging that the incident had turned the city into a “global laughingstock."

Bengal’s leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, posting screenshots of international reports, said the episode was an “international embarrassment" and accused the state government of gross mismanagement.

“Mamata Banerjee’s administration’s epic failure at the Salt Lake Stadium has turned Kolkata into a ‘global laughingstock’. She and her inefficient Ministers, who turned the public event into an exclusive private function with access to only a select few, who swamped the Star and managed to hide hi