West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on Union Home Minister Amit Shah, accusing him of “behaving like an acting Prime Minister” and warning Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be cautious of him.

Mamata said, “He is working like an acting PM. But the PM knows everything. I am sorry to say. We can request the PM, don’t trust him blindly, one day he will turn against you like a Mir Jafar! Be careful.”

In a direct attack, Banerjee compared Shah to Mir Jafar, the 18th-century military general of Bengal who betrayed Nawab Siraj ud Daulah in the Battle of Plassey. “We can request the PM, don’t trust him blindly, one day he will turn against you like a Mir Jafar! Be careful,” she said.

Speaking to reporters outside Kolkata airport after returning from flo

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