NEW DELHI: Political temperatures soared on Saturday after remarks by leaders from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) targeting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of obstructing central agencies and allegedly appeasing a Bangladeshi-origin vote bank.
The sharp reactions come amid Mamata Banerjee’s recent protest against what she termed undue interference by constitutional authorities in the state.
National Spokesperson of the VHP, Vinod Bansal, launched a frontal attack on the Chief Minister alleging, “The exercise that Mamata ji is carrying out to turn Bengal into Bangladesh will never be successful."