New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday fact-checked Union Home Minister Amit Shah on his searing criticism on Sunday of her government's performance and said he owed her a treat as government of India stats on Bengal's social and economic parameters proved him wrong.

"Mr Amit Shah now owes me a treat. I want to eat Gujarati food like dhokla and something else that Dinesh Trivedi often brings for me. I can't remember its name just now," Ms Banerjee said.

Continuing her offensive against Amit Shah, BJP's chief strategist for the Bengal elections in four months, Mamata Banerjee listed data she said proved that his claims about Bengal's dismal state of industry and crime were trumped up.

Amit Shah, on the second day of his weekend visit to Bengal, had slammed what he called lawlessness and stunted progress in Bengal on "Didi's" watch.

Mr Shah said Bengal's growth had plunged and its industrial production had dropped from 30 per cent of India's share in 1947 to just 3.5 per cent. Giving more unflattering data of jobs, investment and production, he questioned: "Who is responsible for this downfall?"Mamata Banerjee said at a press meet on Monday, "As home minister, Mr Amit Shah should have double checked the figures that his party workers had given him. He should not speak such lies."

Mr Shah said Bengal's growth had plunged and its industrial production had dropped from 30 per cent of India's share in 1947 to just 3.5 per cent. Giving more unflattering data of jobs, investment and production, he questioned: "Who is responsible for this downfall?"Mamata Banerjee said at a press meet on Monday, "As home minister, Mr Amit Shah should have double checked the figures that his party workers had given him. He should not speak such lies."

Taking that forward, Ms Banerjee said, "He made Bengal seem like a nightmare land, like a state that is doing badly, underdeveloped, with no jobs... Did you see Bengal 11 years back? How can you compare? Now Bengal is sparkling and shining and I think he is jealous and saying all these things."

"Bengal is number one in eradication of poverty, do you hear me? Bengal is first in poverty alleviation in India. This is on the basis of central records. Bengal is number one in 100 days work, in rural housing, rural roads, MSME sector, skill development, minority scholarship, e-governance and e-tendering."

In her point-by-point rebuttal to Mr Shah's comments, Mamata Banerjee cited national crime data to claim that political killings had decreased in the last 10 years under Trinamool's rule, incidents of rape were down and Kolkata had been declared the safest city for women at least twice in the last nine years.

"On law and order, they don't say a word on Hathras. But in Bengal, a suicide or even death over a family dispute becomes a political murder. But NCRB says political murders are down from 663 in 2001 to 2011 to 153 in 2011 to 2019. Rapes and crime against women were at 246 in 2012 down to 168 in 2019. Rape cases are dropping steadily. Kolkata was adjudged safest city twice," she said.

"When the Home Minister of the country says something, it should be backed by data, facts and figures. Bengal is ahead of other states on all development indices. But Amit Shah ji deliberately tried to depict a gloomy and dismal picture of the state. I was challenged... Challenge accepted. Challenge I gave full reply with data," Ms Banerjee said.