India, April 14 -- Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday launched an attack on West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging that she and Humayun Kabir - the legislator she removed from the party last year for planning to build a mosque modelled on Ayodhya's Babri Masjid - are two of a kind.

"Humayun Kabir and Mamata come from the same mould. He wants to set up Babri Masjid in Bengal. Mamata must listen to this, BJP will come to power and stop the masjid," Shah said at a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally in West Burdwan district's Raniganj, which goes to polls in the first of the two-phase assembly elections on April 23.

Shah accused Banerjee of "opposing" the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and drew parallels with K...