Picking up the thread from her outburst yesterday against the Election Commission for ordering transfer of a DM and five SPs, Mamata Banerjee today said she abides by the Constitution, but will not accept any insult to her state.

"I know what is Constitution. I abide by the Constitution. We pay respect as deserved. But no one has the right to insult Bengal. I have not given you the right to insult me when I give respect to you," the West Bengal Chief Minister said at a public rally in Purulia without naming the EC during her half-an-hour- long speech. Banerjee, who had launched a no-holds-barred attack on the EC yesterday after the poll panel ordered the transfer, said that she was not afraid of threats from Delhi.

"I will live with my head high as long as I live. I am not afraid of threats from Delhi," she said. She alleged that there was no action against two or three people, who with the support from some, were trying to sell out the country.

She said that TMC was born following the ideals of Rabindranath Tagore and Kaji Nazrul Islam. "The more you attack TMC, the more we will flourish. If we would have got 36 seats, now people of Bengal will give us 42 out of 42 seats in the state," she said.