As Bengal politics sparked over Bangladeshi infiltration the State BJP on Friday hit back at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after she accused the Centre and BSF for encouraging infiltrations. The State BJP said the infiltrators were Banerjee's vote bank.

Launching a scathing attack on Banerjee for her "malicious campaign" junior Union Minister and Bengal BJP president Sukanto Majumdar said that all those who were entering Bengal illegally and settling down in the border districts constituted the vote bank of Chief Minister's Trinamool Congress.  "It is an open secret … everyone knows who these infiltrators are … they are the vote bank of Mamata Banerjee which is why they are given grand welcome by the Trinamool Congress government," Majumdar said wondering how she was unaware of the large scale infiltration that has been taking place on daily basis --- if the Chief Minister's claim that nothing that happened escaped her knowledge was true. Incidentally the Chief Minister is also in charge of the Home of the State.

The BJP's counterattack came a day after Banerjee charged the Centre with preparing a 'blueprint' in connivance with the Border Security Force to aid infiltration so as to "destabilize" Bengal.

Alleging that the Bangladeshis infiltrators that settle in Bengal promptly acquire the voter and aadhar cards as also the membership of the TMC, Majumdar said these illegal immigrants "work in the elections to garner vote for Mamata Banerjee," Majumdar said that the Chief Minister was not interested in the future of the people and her State rather "she is interested about winning elections only … she is not interested about the future of the country."

Even as a section of the BJP condemned the Chief Minister for making "seditious" statements by implicating the BSF and the Centre and accusing them of making a "blueprint" to engineer infiltration Majumdar said "today she is making reckless remarks to save her face but "during

2021 Assembly elections she had instigated people to attack Central forces… If it would have been Pakistan forces then she would have welcomed them."

Majumdar's statements came amid the present volatile situation in Bangladesh and regular arrests made by the Indian security forces of people who had infiltrated into India and had been working as terror modules of Ansar ul Bangla and JMB Bangladesh.

The State BJP president's statements also came within hours of the Chief Minister making an aggressive statement accusing the Centre and the BSF of aiding infiltration.

In apparent bid to shift the blame on the Centre's doors Banerjee on Thursday alleged that

BSF was which responsible for guarding the borders, was allowing Bangladeshis to cross into India from Islampur, Sitai, and Chopra in North Bengal.

"Border is guarded by BSF and not the TMC," Banerjee said adding how the BSF was aiding infiltration "to destabilize Bengal" as a part of a blueprint prepared by the Centre and the BSF.

"It is an inside job of the BSF, and it is a blueprint of the Central Government. If there was not any blueprint from the Central Government, then it would not be possible … I have repeatedly spoken to the Central Government that what they decide will be our path, but we will protest against them if they facilitate militants to disrupt the state...We will send a protest letter to the centre also for this," Banerjee said drawing instant criticism from Union Minister Giriraj Singh who said that Bengal during her rule had become a breeding ground of infiltrators."