In an escalation in the war of words between the TMC and the Congress, Banerjee's party had last week claimed that it is now the "real Congress", given the fact that the "war-weary" grand old party has failed to perform its role as the main opposition to the BJP. The TMC, which is trying to make inroads in other states, has been up in the arms against the Congress over its alleged failure to counter the BJP. But they won't succeed," Congress leader Pradip Bhattacharya said. For a long time, we have been saying that BJP and the TMC have a covert understanding and have been working together to destroy Congress. The opposition Congress, however, alleged that the "cat is out of the bag". Mamata Banerjee is the strongest opposition face against the saffron camp," the TMC's state general secretary said. "The allegations of understanding with the BJP are baseless. Senior TMC leader Kunal Ghosh dubbed the allegations of "understanding with the BJP" as baseless.
Swastika might be an RSS-linked magazine, but many articles in it come out which are not in tandem with our policies and principles," he said. "It has nothing to do with the BJP's policy or stand. State BJP spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya termed the article "baseless" and said it has nothing to do with the party's policy or stand. RSS sources said that the magazine is linked with the organisation as its editorial and managing committee has several people who have an RSS background. But I don't know about any understanding as the truth is that 62 BJP workers have been killed in the post-poll violence in West Bengal," Basu told PTI. "I am yet to read the article, so I cannot comment on it. RSS state general secretary Jishnu Basu said that he is yet to go through the article. Repeated calls to Tilak Ranjan Bera, editor of the magazine, went unanswered. The writer also wondered what "political calculation" Banerjee has in her mind that she is bringing her "enemies and known rivals" close to her. That's why she is trying to erase the history to sell this dream," the author wrote. I feel that Mamata now also believes in the same dream. Narendra Modi's dream is Congress-free India. "It is clear from her changing stance that this is not the same Mamata Banerjee. It speaks about the TMC chairperson's recent meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, and claimed that both share the dream of "Congress-free India".
The article titled 'Keno itihas muchte chaichen Mamata? Shilpo agroho na Sonia khotom?' (Why is Mamata keen on erasing history? To attract investment or to destroy Sonia?) was written by Nirmalya Mukhopadhyay and published in the December 13 issue of the magazine.