New Delhi, June 9 -- Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday launched a fresh attack on the Trinamool Congress (TMC) over the candidature of TMC MP Yusuf Pathan, alleging that the party had resorted to polarisation politics during the Assembly elections in West Bengal.

Speaking to ANI here, Chowdhury claimed that Pathan was fielded by the TMC with the sole objective of defeating him in the Baharampur constituency.

"They were deployed after spending crores of rupees to defeat me and do politics of polarisation. She herself went there and made this person the candidate and started campaigning, appealing to vote for the Muslim candidate... You have been voting for Hindus for so many years. This time, vote for him," Chowdhury alle...