Kolkata, Sept. 11 -- There was no respite in the ongoing turf war between ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP with the former refusing to recognise the saffron outfit as a political party and comparing it with a bat.

Reacting to BJP State president Dilip Ghosh's comments that Trinamool Congress was a party of criminals which had unleashed a reign of terror and bloodshed in Bengal, senior TMC leader and Bengal Minister Firhad Hakim on Tuesday said "we do not recognise BJP as a political party because it has no genuine base in the State.

"If you think a bat to be a bird then you must take the BJP as a political party. Much of its muscle-flexing is on account of the support it is getting from the CPI(M) supporters. It is with the help of t...