Dinhata (West Bengal), Apr 3 (IANS): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi "expiry babu" after he called her a "speed breaker" in the path of the state's development.

"I will not call him Prime Minister, he is expiry babu as his government has passed the expiry date," Banerjee told an election meeting in Cooch Behar district here.

Referring to Modi's speech in Siliguri earlier in the day where he said the Banerjee govern`ment had done nothing for the poor, the Chief Minister said: "You first answer what has your government done in five years."

"I am not Modi, I don't tell lies," she said, adding that Modi made false claims about the performance of her government in the state.

Terming West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee a "speed-breaker" in the way of rapid development in the state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday had said she was not interested in eliminating poverty as her brand of politics would then come to an end.

"I regret the speed with which we worked in other states, we could not achieve in Bengal," Modi said while addressing a rally in support of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates for the Lok Sabha elections.

"In West Bengal, there is a speed-breaker in the way of your development. People here know this speed-breaker as Didi (as Banerjee is affectionately called)," he said.

Going all out against Banerjee, he said acting as a "speed-breaker", she hindered a number of central welfare schemes in the state, like Ayushman Bharat, PM-KISAN, and Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016.