BJP president J.P. Nadda on Monday took on both Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, attacking the former for criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the India-China face off in Ladakh while not attending a single parliamentary standing committee on defence meeting and Ms. Banerjee’s government over its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mr. Nadda tweeted his remarks on Mr. Gandhi pointing to what he termed the latter’s “dynastic tradition” of where “parliamentary committees don’t matter, only commissions” do, an oblique reference to corruption allegations against the previous Congress-led governments. “Congress has many deserving members who understand parliamentary matters but one dynasty will never let such leaders grow. Really sad,” tweeted Mr. Nadda.

He launched a broadside against the TMC government in West Bengal accusing it of criminalisation of politics and corruption, while addressing the State unit via video link, on Jan Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s birth anniversary. On one hand we have Syama Prasad Mookerjee, who fought for a united India and always kept his ideals and principles above anything, and on the other we have the present TMC government in Bengal for which clinging to power by any means is everything,” he said.

“The West Bengal Chief Minister doesn’t believe in cooperative federalism. She is not keen on sharing COVID data with the Centre,” he alleged.

“Criminalisation of politics has scaled new heights, now we all hear about cut money in Bengal. We need to cut to size these leaders who demand cut money. We need to restore Bengal’s glory and remove this government lock, stock and barrel,” Mr. Nadda said.

He asserted it was because of the efforts of the Jana Sangh founder that West Bengal and large parts of Punjab were with India.

“It is due to Syama Prasad Mookerjee that Bengal and Punjab are with India. Otherwise they would have gone to Pakistan during Partition. He opposed the appeasement politics of Nehru in post-Independent India, but the Congress has a bad habit of stifling democratic voices,” he said.