India, March 14 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday attacked West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), saying that it was turning Bengali Hindus into a minority as it does not consider them as their vote bank.

"Over the last few decades, the demography has changed in many areas of Bengal. Bengali Hindus are being turned into a minority. The TMC is opposed to giving citizenship to Hindus because, for them, their vote bank is paramount. They do not consider Hindus as their vote bank because they [Hindus] do not add to their criminal gangs."

He said the TMC opposed the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) so that infiltrators are not removed from the voter roll. 'They are not even ready to delete the names of dead voters," Modi sa...