West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday claimed that she refused a meeting with Narendra Modi over Cyclone Fani impact as she does not consider him the country's prime minister.

"I do not consider him the country's prime minister, hence I did not sit for the meeting. I do not want to be seen with him on the same platform. I will speak to the next prime minister. We can take care of the cyclone damage by ourselves. We do not need the Centre's help ahead of polls," Mamata Banerjee said in Jhargram earlier in the day.

Continuing her attack on the prime minister, Mamata Banerjee said how would PM Modi take care of Indians if "he could not take care of his wife".

"If I am a toll collector then what are you? From head to toe you are filled with people’s blood. When asked what does his [PM] wife do and where does she stay, he (PM) said he doesn't know. He can't take care of his wife, he will take care of Indians?," Mamata Banerjee said during a rally in Bishnupur.

The West Bengal chief minister said that she was unable to receive PM Modi's calls made to her office as she was then camping at Kharagpur to closely monitor the possible advent of Cyclone Fani in the state.

Mamata Banerjee, while addressing a rally at Gopiballavpur sub-division of Jhargram on Monday, said, "I was in Kharagpur monitoring the cyclone but the prime minister's calls were made to my office [in Kolkata] so, I could not respond to them."

Mamata Banerjee said that PM Modi had called her for a meeting at Kalaikunda, where he landed for an election meeting after touring the cyclone-battered Odisha. "Are we his servants that we have to go wherever he beckons? Now he will allege that I have not responded and have not shown cooperation."

"My [poll] meeting at Jhargram today was fixed. Elections are on in West Bengal, while it is over in Odisha. Why should I share the dais with an expiry prime minister during election time?"

Earlier, while addressing a rally in East Midnapore district's Tamluk, PM Modi said that he had called Mamata Banerjee twice on Saturday but his calls were not returned.

"She [Mamata Banerjee] is so arrogant that she didn't speak to me. Speed breaker Didi is more interested in doing politics," he said.

PM Modi said he had wanted to speak to the state officials to take stock of the situation. "But she didn't allow that to happen. The people of West Bengal are getting affected because of her politics. But I want to assure you all that the Central government stands with the people of Bengal," PM Modi said.

The Trinamool Congress supremo said PM Modi should get the "right lesson" in the ongoing Lok Sabha election.

"[Modi], don't look at West Bengal. You are going to lose for sure," she said.

(With inputs from PTI, ANI)