Kolkata, Dec. 22 -- A day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah staged the "biggest roadshow in Bengal", Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has promised to repeat the feat by the end of this year leading a counter rally at Bolpur along the same route. The rally is likely to be held on December 29, party leaders said.

Hitting out at the BJP leadership (read Shah) for delivering "a garbage of lies," on Bengal's development, the Chief Minister said, "Some people are coming from Delhi and discharging a garbage of lies in Bengal," countering Shah's claim that the State was lagging far behind in economic development, industrial growth and employment generation index.

"Contrary to what they said Bengal is number one in many fields," she said speaking ...