Kolkata, June 11 -- Suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Riju Dutta on Thursday drew a parallel to the classic epic Mahabharata, accusing TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee of acting like "Dhritarashtra" by blindly favouring her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, to the detriment of the party.

Launching a blistering attack at Abhishek Banerjee, Dutta told ANI, "Yuvraj ka ab chakki peesne ka time aa gaya hai," (The time has come for the 'Yuvraj' to grind the millstone behind bars), signalling a growing expectation that legal challenges will result in severe consequences for the party's second-in-command.

Dutta painted a picture of an organisation hollowed out by cronyism. He alleged that Abhishek Banerjee's tenure has been marked by a systematic ca...