Notably, a video went viral on Friday that showed a group of seers being purportedly stripped and assaulted by a mob in the Purulia district of West Bengal.
"If there is election at one time, it is beneficial for us because we have to work only once. But if a state does not get a majority government, what will be its outcome?" Mamata Banerjee said speaking at a press conference.
Additionally, she extended an invitation for PM Modi to visit Ganga Sagar, emphasizing the event's uniqueness, significance, magnitude, and spiritual depth.
BJP leaders have slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her remarks that the ruling party at the Centre was "doing a gimmick before elections" over credit for the "pran prathishtha" at Ram temple in Ayodhya on January 22
"They say all of these projects need to be painted saffron. We respect saffron because it is worn by saints. But why should everything be painted in BJP colour?" Mamata Banerjee said speaking at a public distribution program in South 24 Parganas.
"I want to know, how many thieves, dacoits, and murderers of the BJP have been arrested across the country? They are running a 'democracy of agencies'...Their leaders want to 'increase arrests'. But they should know that they will not be in power forever," Mamata said.
Day after calling Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee a "queen of thieves", in light of his suspension from the Assembly over alleged offensive remarks directed at the Speaker, West Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday said those labelling Prime Minister Narendra Modi as 't
As Union Home Minister Amit Shah headlined a BJP show of strength in the heart of Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday railed against the Centre for allegedly stalling payment of arrears to the state government under the MGNREGA scheme.
West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party president Sukanta Majumdar on Saturday hit out at Mamata Banerjee saying that India is incomplete without the saffron colour and CM Banerjee is just doing vote bank and appeasement politics.
"We work and they advertise. If they had given the money spent on advertisements to labourers, then there would not have been the MGNREGA protests. We have never seen anything like this," the Chief Minister said.
BJP MLA and the party's general secretary in West Bengal, Agnimitra Paul, on Tuesday hit out at the ruling Trinamool Congress, saying that law and order are lying in ruins and 'criminals' are running the state.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was seen breaking into a dance holding an oar along with women participants at the Durga Puja Carnival in Kolkata's Red Road on Friday.