Messi's Kolkata Event: After the GOAT India Tour on Saturday, featuring celebrated footballer Lionel Messi, turned into pure chaos at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium, the Bharatiya Janata Party has intensified its attack on the ruling Mamata government.
A day after BJP leader Suvendu Adhivakari demanded the resignation of Mamata Banerjee, the BJP on Sunday accused the state government of turning the state into a ‘global laughing stock’.
Sharing screenshots of international media reports, Adhikari said what unfolded during the Kolkata event was an ‘international embarrassment’, accusing the government of huge mismanagement.
International Embarrassment !!!
— Suvendu Adhikari (@SuvenduWB) December 14, 2025
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… pic.twitter.com/jP9Q1QTHHI
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“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 him from the public view, but were made to pay huge amounts to fund the event, triggered off the chaos," Adhikari wrote.
Adhikari called the chaos on the first day of the GOAT India tour a humiliation ‘on the world stage’, adding that CM’s apology was a tactic to shift attention. “Apologies and tactfully shifting all the blame on a ‘scapegoat’ conveniently won’t wash away the gross incompetence of the TMC Govt,” Suvendu Adhikari added.
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Public Stadium Converted Into ‘Private Durbar’
In the letter, Adhikari accused the Mamata government of converting the publicly funded stadium into ‘private dubar’ for elites, where people who bought tickets with their hard-earned money were denied Messi’s glimpses as VVIPs obstructed the view.
“What unfolded was not merely an episode of administrative incompetence; it was a public humiliation of citizens, a grotesque exhibition of unrestrained political privilege, and a direct assault on the rule of law," he wrote.
Adhikari, earlier, wrote to the governor CV Bose seeking an independent judicial inquiry into what he called ‘administrative incompetence’ and ‘public humiliation of citizens’ at the Yuva Bharati Krirangan.