The BJP soon responded to Chief Minister with party leader Suvendu Adhikari calling her post a “desperate attempt to steal credit for projects that languished under your watch.”

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee went down the memory lane, revisiting her time as the Union Railway Minister, when she was involved in the planning and sanctioning of a series of Metro railway corridors in Kolkata.

The United Nations on Friday officially declared a famine in Gaza, the first in the Middle East, with its experts saying 500,000 people were facing “catastrophic” hunger.