India, July 19 -- A political slugfest broke out between West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma on social media on Saturday with the two chief ministers accusing each other of engaging in divisive and appeasement politics.

"This divisive agenda of the BJP in Assam has crossed all limits and people of Assam will fight back. I stand with every fearless citizen who is fighting for the dignity of their language and identity, and their democratic rights," Banerjee wrote on X.

This comes just a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal had created an ecosystem to shield infiltrators for political reasons. Modi was countering allegations by ...