Union home minister Amit Shah  lashed out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accusing her of allowing infiltration from Bangladesh. The home minister alleged that she is doing so to increase her vote bank.

Addressing the BJP workers meeting, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said, “.The elections of West Bengal will not only decide Bengal’s future, but it is also associated with national security. Mamata Banerjee has opened the nations borders for Bangladeshis. She is allowing infiltration… Mamata Banerjee cannot stop infiltration; only a Lotus government can do that. We have asked her for land to create the fence… She is not providing land at the borders, so that infiltration continues, and her vote bank keeps increasing, and your nephew becomes the CM after you. But this is not going to happen.”