Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday demanded the resignation of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in response to the latter's claim that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government will fall in 2025 if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gets 35 Lok Sabha seats next year.

Addressing a press conference at her office Nabanna, Mamata said, "I have no objection to his (Amit Shah's) political statements. He has every right to say them. But how can he say the government will fall in 2025?"

"The Home Minister, who is the custodian of law and constitution, is giving the call to topple an elected government," the Chief Minister said, demanding Shah's resignation.

During a rally in Birbhum last week, Shah urged people to re-elect the Modi government in the 2024 General Elections, electing 35 MPs from the BJP.

Shah added the TMC government won't survive if the BJP gets 35 of 42 Lok Sabha seats.

Last time before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Shah had set a target of 23 seats for the BJP.

Though the BJP had failed to breach the TMC fort in 2019, it gave a massive jolt to the governing party increasing its tally from 2 to 18.