Hyderabad, March 11 -- Bharatiya Janata Party leader N Ramchander Rao on Monday lashed out at Trinamool Congress for branding the BJP as "outsiders" and said that the list of candidates released by TMC for Lok Sabha polls showed the "fear" of Mamata Banerjee of losing seats in West Bengal and that's the reason they have bought people from "outside."

Abandoning the Congress-led INDIA bloc, Trinamool Congress on Sunday announced its candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal for the upcoming general elections.

"West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee branded the BJP as outsiders, coming from Delhi and other places and campaigning in the state and they (BJP) are basically against the people of Bengal. Now we have seen when the...