Kolkata, May 14 -- Hours after BJP president Amit Shah's helicopter was denied permission by the West Bengal Police to land at Baruipur under Jadavpur constituency for an election rally, he attacked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for "damaging all the democratic institutions and norms in the State."

Shah alleged, "A Bengal that was once a sonar Bangla (golden Bengal) has been reduced to a Kangal Bangla (destitute Bengal)."

The BJP alleged that the Chief Minister has replaced democracy with her "dictatorship" after the State administration denied permission to a rally by Shah.

Mamata immediately hit back, "The way he (Shah) is insulting Bengal and its people will not go unpunished. Uneducated people like these (Shah) who have no idea of...