India, Jan. 23 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party at an event to mark the 129th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, saying the Centre had been insulting national icons such as Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Bose and B R Ambedkar.

"The Centre is yet to declare a national holiday on Netaji's birthday. Netaji envisaged the Planning Commission. This government dissolved it and formed the Niti Aayog. Nobody knows till now what Niti Aayog does," Banerjee said at a state government event in Kolkata.

"Whether it is Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Netaji or Balasaheb Ambedkar, everyone is being insulted today. Efforts are being made to make people forget the contribution of...