Kolkata, March 8 -- A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned that the Sandeshkhali storm would soon sweep across the State pulling down in its wake a "corrupt, oppressive and anti-women" Trinamool Congress Government, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee hit back presaging a "brewing anti-BJP tornado which will obliterate" the saffron outfit.

Desperate to pull back the steadily eroding women"s vote base in the wake of Sandeshkhali uprising against land-grab and sexual assault the Chief Minister on Thursday led a massive rally on the eve of International Women"s Day. At the end of the march joined by some women from the reverine islands Banerjee claimed that the members of the fairer sex were safest in Bengal.

"Some people are spre...