Kolkata, Nov 16 (IANS) The recent controversial statement by a Madhya Pradesh minister on Bengali social reformer and scholar Raja Ram Mohan Roy has triggered a new flash point between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP.

The Mamata Banerjee-led party was quick to slam the BJP as “anti-Bengali” and its leaders in West Bengal as outsiders after BJP’s Madhya Pradesh Higher Education Minister Inder Singh Parmar called the 19th-century scholar a “British agent”.

Speaking at an event in Agar Malwa district to mark the 150th anniversary of Birsa Munda, Parmar claimed the tribal icon had tried to stop the cycle of religious conversion run by some fake social reformers at the behest of the British rulers.

“There was a vicious cycle going on in Bengal and nearby regions to change the faith of the

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