"After listening to what you said in your #BengalPolls campaign meeting, you have tested the limits of our politeness and compelled us to react. How could you - how dare you, we would say - compare Mamata Banerjee to Narendra Modi?
"How could you even concoct something as devious and ridiculous as that? This is sad and unfortunate, it is also petty and speaks of political desperation. The lengths people go to, to try and score cheap points in election season," a statement issued by TMC chief national spokesperson Derek O'Brien here said.
"In Delhi, you play along with the BJP government. No wonder the National Herald case is "under control". No wonder the promised investigations against UPA ministers and your associates have not materialised. The Sonia-Modi arrangement is so neat, it has reduced national politics to a protection racket. And in Kolkata, the pot calls the kettle black," the statement added.
The TMC leader said, "We have always been very restrained when it comes to criticising you. We have strived to maintain decency and decorum and never attacked you personally, despite political differences and vitriolic and hostile words used against the Trinamool Congress and Mamata Banerjee by your Congress underlings," he said.