Explanation:

The ruling All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) has found a specific word to attack the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s outsider status. The word ‘bargi’ as the TMC likes to call the BJP, is of special significance in Bengal’s history.

• The term is a reference to the several Maratha invasions of West Bengal between 1741 and 1751, which resulted in looting, plundering and massacres of what was then Mughal territory.
• The happenings of this specific period have affected Bengal’s consciousness so much that they have an established presence in Bengali folklore and literature, and the term ‘bargis’ is used as a casual reference to troublesome outsider forces.
• Simply speaking, the word bargi referred to cavalrymen in Maratha and Mughal armies. The word comes from the Persian “bargir”, literally meaning “burden taker”.
• But in the Mughal and Maratha armies, the term signified “a soldier who rode a horse furnished by his employer.”

Hence both statements are correct.