Union Home Minister and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday had a verbal spar with the former accusing the Bengal Government for promoting trans-border infiltration, and corruption besides resisting the Citizenship Amendment Act and the latter slamming the BJP for planning assassination of her nephew and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.

Asking from the people of Bengal anywhere between 30 and 35 seats from an election rally in North Dinajpur Shah promised to stop trans-border infiltration in Bengal. “Last time you gave me 18 seats and we gave you Ram Mandir … this time you give us 35 seats and Lord Ram will drive away all the infiltrators from Bengal,” Shah said warning the Chief Minister that none of her tricks would work this time round as the “people of Bengal have become alert and we will win 30-35 seats from here.”

Alleging that the TMC infiltration had always worked to the advantage of the TMC which was why it would never stop that menace Shah alleged how the Chief Minister was promoting infiltration on the one hand and resisting the Citizenship Amendment Act meant for providing legal citizenship to the non-Muslim refugees from neighbouring countries on the other.

“On one hand you (Banerjee) are promoting infiltration and on the other hand you are opposing the CAA … but you cannot stop that from happening … there is now way that you can stop CAA and it is bound to be implemented,” he said.Slamming the TMC Government for unleashing a corruption raj Shah referring to the Monday’s High Court vides which about 26,000 school staff lost their jobs said, “corruption is everywhere in Bengal… It is under Mamata Banerjee’s rule where jobseekers are paying Rs 15 lakh and central agencies recover Rs 50 crore from (the friend’s house) minister like Partha Chatterjee… There were time when the TMC leaders had kutcha houses and they rode cycles … but now they have big houses.”

Corruption could be routed out of Bengal only if the BJP could be brought to power and that would be possible only if the saffron party got 30-35 seats from the State, he said.

Shah also referred to the Sandeshkhali incident saying how the women of Bengal were suffering during the TMC rule.

Hitting the BJP leadership back the Chief Minister said it was the Gaddars (traitors) in the BJP who had gone to that party to save their ill-gotten money who were defaming Bengal.Addressing an election rally at Birbhum the Chief Minister said stopping short of naming Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari how the BJP was planning even to assassinate her family members.

Referring to a recent intelligence reports about a man from Maharashtra visiting Kolkata repeatedly with a reported intention to attack TMC national general secretary and Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek, she said, “recently a Gaddar said that a bomb will explode soon and now you have intelligence reports coming in.”

She said, if you have a grudge against me you can kill me with a bomb,” adding how the police got reports about how “they conducted a recce at his (Abhishek) house, called him on Facetime and asked for an appointment. Had he given him time, he would have shot and fled.”