The poll campaigning at Nandigram reached its crescendo and there was a bitter war of words Monday between the main rivals - Trinamool Congress' Mamata Banerjee and BJP's Suvendu Adhikari, her close follower-turned-political foe.
"Without the knowledge of the father-son duo, police could not have entered Nandigram on that day," she said.
"It is my fault that I had showered so much love on them," said the TMC supremo, who has in her campaign meetings branded the Adhikari family without naming them as "traitors" after Suvendu, his father Sisir and brother Soumendu Adhikari quit her party to join BJP. "I had given at least 10 plum postings to a single family and this is how they reciprocated, this is how they betrayed as venomous traitors," she added.