Kolkata, July 21 -- Launching a scathing attack against Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari without naming him, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, speaking at her faction's Martyrs' Day rally on Tuesday, made it clear that leaders who had defected from the party would not be welcomed back.

Sharpening her attack on the chief minister, alleging that the present government was more interested in weakening the Trinamool Congress than maintaining law and order, the former chief minister said, "I know what he had done during his nearly decade-long stint in the Trinamool Congress. Don't provoke me."Her remarks echoed similar comments she had made nearly two months after the Assembly election results, when she had reminded Adhikari of his lon...