Kolkata, 15 February (HS): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out on the BJP government over the ongoing Income Tax Survey at the BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai. Banerjee said that the only mandate of the saffron party is a dictatorship and they are more than Hitler. She accused the BJP of pursuing vendetta politics.

''The income tax survey on BBC is very unfortunate and it shows the political vendetta of the BJP government... The income tax survey on the BBC is affecting freedom of the press and there will come one day when there will be no media in India, said Banerjee at her chamber in the West Bengal assembly.

The Income Tax Department survey operation against BBC India continued for the second day today with sleuths understood to be making copies of electronic and paper-based financial data of the organisation, officials said.

The action comes weeks after the broadcaster aired a two-part documentary, 'India: The Modi Question'. The Modi government has banned the documentary in India. The same was also challenged in the Supreme Court by some opposition leaders.

Hindusthan Samachar /Priyanka