BJP state president Dilip Ghosh denied the charges and in turn blamed the TMC's alleged appeasement politics for communal tensions in the state. Mukherjee said he has not seen religion-based polarisation in West Bengal politics before. Banerjee, who is also the chief minister of West Bengal, has been spearheading her party's efforts to check the BJP's aggressive campaigning. Ghosh dismissed the chief minister's accusations that the BJP is trying to create communal tension in West Bengal. He alleged that the TMC's appeasement politics has led to creation of communal tension in West Bengal.

Source: dna April 20, 2019 06:33 UTC