'Mamata will know Amit Shah when elections are due in WB': BJP

Taking potshots at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her remark that she did not know Amit Shah, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday said the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo will know the latter when elections take place in her state.

BJP spokesperson Nalin Kohli said the TMC chief's comment indicates that she is not following the elections in the country.

"And if she does not follow also, then in the West Bengal elections when they are due she will certainly get to know who Mr. Amit Shah and his team are," he added.

When asked about BJP president Amit Shah's comment that the TMC is trying hard to protect extremist fundamentalist Muslim forces in the state, the West Bengal Chief Minister in a TV interview yesterday said that she sis not know him.

"Who is this man? I don't know him? I haven't seen him. Politically, he can make these statements. I don't know these people. I know Advaniji, I know Vajpayeeji, I know Rajnathji, I know Arun Jaitley, I know Sushmaji. I know so many BJP leaders, Congress party leaders and other party leaders. I don't know all leaders of BJP," said Mamata.

Addressing a party rally in Kolkata earlier this month for the first time since he took over as the BJP president, Shah had accused the state's ruling TMC of involvement in the Saradha scam and emphasized that the Centre was not afraid of anybody in bringing the guilty to the book.

The BJP chief had also lashed out at the TMC government in West Bengal

over a host of issues, including illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.