New Delhi, June 22 -- Congress' Media and Publicity chairperson, Pawan Khera, on Monday took a jibe at the BJP government in West Bengal after Suhrawardy Avenue in Kolkata was renamed as Gopal Mukherjee Road.

In an X post, Khera cited Prime Minister Narendra Modi's message in the book 'Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee: The Great Educationist,' which stated that Mookerjee was a supporter of Dr Hassan Suhrawardy.

Hitting out at the BJP, the Congress leader called out the "intellectual bankruptcy."

"This book (published by Prabhat Prakashan and authored by senior BJP leader Dr Nand Kishore Garg), which carries the message of Prime Minister Modi claims that Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee was the chief counsel and a huge supporter of Dr Hasan Suhraward...