Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee has accused party colleague Mahua Moitra of demanding his arrest, as rifts within Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress - something Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee can ill afford before next year's high-stakes Assembly election - made a public appearance this week.
"Mahua asked the BSF (Border Security Force) to arrest me... who is she? How dare she ask for my arrest? Mahua was shouting at the top of her voice... I responded accordingly," Mr Banerjee, a four-time Lok Sabha MP and one of the Trinamool's senior leaders, said Tuesday afternoon.