Kolkata, Oct 8 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday sharpened her attack against Union Home Minister Amit Shah by alleging that the BJP leader’s actions were like those of an “acting Prime Minister”.

Speaking to reporters outside the Kolkata airport after her return from flood-ravaged north Bengal, Banerjee said she wanted to urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to repose too much faith in Shah, who “may one day become his Mir Zafar”.

She was referring to the 18th-century military general of Bengal who betrayed Nawab Siraj ud Daulah in the Battle of Plassey and later became the monarch with the help of the British. Show Full Article

The TMC supremo accused the BJP top brass of manipulating the Election Commission into conducting the Special Intensive Revision (

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