I don't need to steal: Mamata on idol row

Asserting that she doesn't “need to steal”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday rubbished as “baseless” the allegations of using sacred neem wood from Puri’s Jagannath temple to make the idols for the newly built Digha temple.

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She also expressed grave concern over reports of attacks on Bengali-speaking migrant workers in Odisha.

Speaking to reporters in Murshidabad, Banerjee hit out at critics, asserting that her government had “no reason to use stolen wood” and dismissed the controversy as a politically motivated ploy to malign her.

“Why would we use stolen neem wood? We have our sources of neem wood.