Kolkata, June 2 -- A political row erupted on Sunday over the arrest of social media influencer Sharmishta Panoli by the Kolkata Police over a controversial social media, with the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) slamming the West Bengal government of "selective enforcement" of the law.

Panoli, a 22-year-old law student from Pune in Maharashtra, was arrested in Gurugram on Friday night for allegedly hurting religious sentiments in an Instagram video on Operation Sindoor -- India's military response to Pakistan over the Pahalgam terror attack. On Saturday, she was produced before the Alipore court in Kolkata, which remanded her in judicial custody for 14 days.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Sunday, criticised Panoli's arre...