India, May 5 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Odisha on Monday alleging that she has been falsely accused of using neem wood stolen from the Jagannath temple in Puri to make the idols at the recently inaugurated Jagannath temple in East Midnapore district's Digha.

Banerjee also alleged that migrant workers from her state are being singled out for speaking Bengali and assaulted in BJP-ruled states.

"What is your problem if we, too, have a Jagannath Dham of our own? You stay well and let Bengal stay well. Why are you assaulting our people. I have information that whoever speaks Bengali is being assaulted in Odisha. This has happened in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Biha...