Pawar slams PM, says he has time for Calcutta, but not farmers NCP leader in Ranchi, says BJP spewing communal venom all over country Former Maharashtra chief minister Sharad Pawar slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday for choosing to address political rallies in West Bengal over meeting protesting farmers hardly 20km from his residence in Lutyens’ Delhi. Addressing Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) workers in Ranchi’s Harmu ground, Pawar said Modi’s decision to avoid a dialogue with the protesting farmers clearly showed his priorities. “The Prime Minister has the time to go to Calcutta and address rallies, but he doesn’t have the time to meet the protesting farmers,” said the NCP leader on Sunday, a day after the farmers’ protest against the farm laws entered its 100th day.