New Delhi, Oct. 17 -- : CPI(M) leader Mohammad Salim has sent a legal notice to BJP West Bengal General Secretary, Sayantan Basu for his derogatory remarks in which he had allegedly referred to Salim as an 'ISI agent'.

In his legal notice, Salim has accused BJP leader Basu of saying that "Md Salim is a known ISI (Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence) agent. Twitter has done the right thing by closing his account".

In the notice, Salim mentioned that on October 13, Basu had made a comment on Salim which was also published by a West Bengal's vernacular dailies.

Salim had come under attack by BJP leadership after criticising Union Minister Babul Supriyo's visit to Jadavpur university.

In September, Supriyo had said that he will file a de...