New Delhi, July 16 -- The BJP on Monday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of indulging in "dog-whistle politics" with an eye on "Islamist vote banks".
This came after Banerjee slammed the alleged house arrest of her Jammu and Kashmir counterpart Omar Abdullah and his ministers, calling it "unfortunate" and said it amounted to snatching the democratic rights of citizens.
Abdullah and several leaders of the National Conference and opposition parties were allegedly put under house arrest on Sunday to prevent them from going to the Naqshband Sahib graveyard in Srinagar to mark Martyrs' Day.
A defiant Abdullah, however, on Monday scaled the gates of the graveyard to pay tributes to the 22 people killed by the Dogra army on Ju...