Samajwadi party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remark that 40 TMC MLAs are in touch with him and said that he should be banned not for 72 hours but 72 years.

Taking to Twitter, Yadav wrote: "Vikas is asking: Did you hear the shameful speech of Pradhan ji After losing the trust of 125 crore countrymen, he is now confined to posing unethical faith in so-called party-changing antics of 40 Bengal MLAs. This is not him but the mentality of black money speaking in this way. For this, he should be banned for not 72 hours but for 72 years."