Ahead of the Panchayat polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party has sparked a new controversy after using images of violence in Bangladesh in its election manifesto to assert “lawlessness” in West Bengal.

In a bid to reinforce its claim that there is lawlessness in the state under the current regime, the BJP manifesto released on Tuesday used a number of pictures of violence and vandalism, one of which was allegedly of the 2013 Bangladesh violence, reported IANS.