Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday alleged that the “tukde-tukde” gang had threatened to snap the strategic Siliguri Corridor to cut off the Northeast from the rest of the country, and the TMC gave them support from the streets to the Parliament because of its “appeasement politics”.

Addressing an election rally at the Kawakhali ground in the northern West Bengal city of Siliguri, Modi called the TMC an “anti-tribal, anti-women and anti-youth party”, whose appeasement politics has brought about untold misery to the state.