Kolkata, April 9 -- Hours after the Election Commission served a show-cause notice on Mamata Banerjee for making alleged communal statements, a defiant Bengal Chief Minister on Thursday said she would not be intimidated by such notices . "let them file tens of such letters on me."

Mamata, who was addressing a rally at Domjur in Howrah, accused the Election Commission of playing a partisan role, saying, "Why don't they serve notices on Narendra Modi, who makes provocative Hindu-Muslim statements every day? Why don't they send letters to the BJP leaders in Nandigram who openly call the local Muslim people Pakistanis in order to divide the electorate? Let them sent 10 notices to me. I don't care. My answer to them will remain the same."

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