"Hypocrisy at new depths": Abhishek Banerjee slams BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar's call to remove India-Bangladesh border

New Delhi [India], November 1 (ANI): Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership, accusing it of "hypocrisy of new depths" over contradictory statements on India-Bangladesh borders.
In a post on X, Banerjee highlighted a video featuring a statement by BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar from Ranaghat, who reportedly declared that if the BJP comes to power, "there will be no borders between India and Bangladesh - both nations will become one again."
BJP MP from Ranaghat, Jagannath Sarkar, in that circulated video, was heard saying, "We make solemn promise, if we win the election this time...the barbed wire fence separating from BANGLADESH will no longer remain....the two nations will once again be reunited."
Banerjee contrasted this with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the BJP-led central government's repeated accusations against the West Bengal government for allegedly failing to provide land to secure the same borders.
"The HYPOCRISY of the BJP leadership has fallen to new depths. @BJP4India MP from Ranaghat, Jagannath Sarkar declares that if the BJP COMES TO POWER, there will be no borders between INDIA AND BANGLADESH - both nations will become ONE again! On the other hand, the same BJP government, including @HMOIndia Amit Shah, keeps blaming the West Bengal government for not giving land to 'PROTECT' the very BORDERS THEIR OWN MP WANTS TO ERASE!" Banerjee wrote.
Banerjee challenged the BJP to suspend its Ranaghat MP immediately over remarks suggesting the merger of India and Bangladesh if the BJP comes to power, terming it a blatant assault on the nation's integrity.
"If the BJP truly believes in the nation's integrity, I challenge @BJP4India @JPNadda to suspend this MP immediately. Their silence will only expose that HE SPOKE WITH THE FULL CONSENT OF TOP LEADERSHIP," he wrote on X.
He further said, "This is not nationalism - this is deception. Fooling and humiliating the people of West Bengal in the name of "SIR" has become the BJP's trademark politics - A dangerous mix of hypocrisy and betrayal! Look at their own words and decide who's fooling Bengal." (ANI)