Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said BJP will make a "son of the soil" chief minister if voted to power in West Bengal assembly polls,Modi's remarks drew an angry outburst from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who accused him of "peddling lies to mislead the voters," reports our New Delhi correspondent. 

Addressing an election rally in Kanthi in the Purba Medinipur district, Modi said Bengal was the land of icons like Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore, and Subhas Chandra Bose, and no Indian was an outsider on this land. 

Modi's comments came amid an "insider vs outsider" debacle, with Mamata regularly claiming that she will not allow Bengal to be ruled by "outsiders" from Delhi or Gujarat. 

Pushing back at Modi at a rally in Siliguri today, Mamata wanted to know why the Modi government is yet to deposit Rs 15 lakh in every citizen's bank account, as he had promised before the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. "You have made many empty promises. People will not accept your falsehood every day," she added.