Banerjee said that while speaking to the media yesterday she had said many things on fighting dengue, but some television channels picked out a comment she made on dieting.
"These days there are so many distortions that I do not feel like talking. While speaking I will speak the way I want to. It is my habit. But some channels picked up one comment and quoted me as supposedly saying that dieting leads to dengue," the chief minister said while speaking at a teachers'day programme.
"Why should I assume the role of a doctor? I do not have a doctor's knowledge," she said.
"I had spoken about eating properly and drinking water sufficiently so that resistance (against disease) increases," she said.
Directing her comments at the media, she said, "They need counselling. Not all, but some."
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