India, April 21 -- The last day of the high-octane campaigning for the first phase of the Assembly polls in West Bengal ended with the BJP's response to Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's charge that the saffron party will ban fish if voted to power.

Banerjee had earlier claimed that the BJP, if voted to power in the state, would "stop the consumption of fish and eggs." In what seemed to be reply to Mamata, BJP MP Anurag Thakur and other party leaders were seen eating fish curry and rice in Kolkata.

"We are eating meat, fish and rice," Thakur told reporters. He stated that the BJP has its government in 16 states, and the NDA in 20 states. "There is no restriction anywhere on anyone's language, food and worship," the BJP MP said....