Diamond Harbour: Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday equated turncoat former West Bengal minister Suvendu Adhikari with an asymptomatic COVID-19 patient who "betrayed" the party in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and was "sabotaging" it from inside. A bust of the iconic social reformer was desecrated in a college in Kolkata during the then BJP chief Amit Shah's rally. Banerjee mocked Adhikari for having failed to "convert" his father and two brothers from TMC to BJP. Suvendu Adhikari's father and Kanthi MP Sisir Adhikari, brother and Kanthi MP Soumendu Adhikari and younger brother and Kanthi Municipality Chairman Soumendu Adhikari are still with the TMC. Banerjee said BJP leaders like the party's state chief Dilip Ghosh are issuing threats to break hands and limbs, which are more befitting for goons.

Source: Mint December 27, 2020 15:00 UTC