"Crying Like A Child": Trinamool MP's Swipe At Veep Amid Mimicry Row

Addressing a political meeting at Serampore in Bengal, Kalyan Banerjee said the first person to perform mimicry inside Lok Sabha was Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Days after his mimicry on Parliament premises raised a political storm, Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee has said he is "helpless" if someone "does not understand humour" and does not have a "cultured mind" to appreciate mimicry.

Addressing a political meeting at his Lok Sabha constituency Serampore, Mr Banerjee said the first person to perform mimicry inside Lok Sabha was Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He then mimicked the Prime Minister while on stage. "He did that, we smiled. We did not take an exception."

Mimicry, the Trinamool leader reiterated, is an art. "If someone does not understand art, what can I do? If someone does not understand humour, if someone does not have a cultured mind, if someone identifies himself as the target, I am helpless," he said, without naming Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar, who has taken strong note of his act of mimicry.