Kolkata, July 22 -- West Bengal Congress President Subhankar Sarkar launched a sharp attack on TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday, accusing the TMC of converting 'Martyrs' Day' into a "political spectacle" and asserting that a long-standing nexus exists between the TMC and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Reassessing the state's political dynamics while addressing the media, Sarkar cited an old local adage," where there is TMC, there is BJP, and where there is BJP, there is TMC", claiming recent events provide fresh evidence of the two parties mutually aiding each other to weaken the Congress in West Bengal.

Speaking to ANI, Sarkar said that when Mamata Banerjee broke away from the Congress to form the TMC and started observing Mar...