India, March 28 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday hit out at West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee after she reportedly "objected" to a forecast predicting that India would become the world's largest economy by 2060.

In a video clip, Mamata Banerjee, who is currently in the United Kingdom, is purportedly heard saying she "disagrees" with the projection. Her remarks have drawn sharp criticism from the BJP back home.

BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya posted a video from the interaction in which Mamata Banerjee was seen engaged in a conversation on 'Social Development - Girl, Child and Women Empowerment in West Bengal' at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, during which she disagreed with the claim that India will become the worl...