"Mamata Banerjee is not only the 'agnikanya' of West Bengal, but of India also. If she is touched or arrested then Bengal will be on fire. In that fire lot of people will die," MP Idris Ali said at a meeting here in North 24-Parganas district.
Asserting that even Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot handle the 'agnikanya' of West Bengal, he said that it was not a small thing that Trinamool got so many seats in the last Lok Sabha polls.
"People will not accept it if anyone tries to defame her," the party leader said.
West Bengal transport minister Madan Mitra and two party MPs Kunal Ghosh and Srinjoy Bose have been arrested by the CBI in the multi-crore chit-fund scam.
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