The BJP has accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of attempting to separate the state from India by inciting violence and protecting illegal immigrants, drawing parallels to the 1905 partition of Bengal.
The court had asked the West Bengal Zoo Authority to consider renaming the lioness and lion, and wondered why create a controversy by giving such names.
It then went on to ask whether a lion could be named after Swami Vivekananda or Ramakrishna Paramahansa.
In a scathing indictment of the state police chief A B Vohra, the court observed that he had not cared to even monitor the situation in Jalpaiguri.
'From chaiwala he has now become Rafalewala. He speaks a bunch of lies,' the West Bengal CM said.
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