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Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has launched a fierce attack on the BJP-led Indian government and the Election Commission of India (ECI), accusing them of turning the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists into a tool for \u201csilent invisible rigging\u201d ahead of the 2026 Assembly polls.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, leading a massive rally from Dharmatala to Jorasanko \u2014 the ancestral home of poet Rabindranath Tagore \u2014 Mamata warned that the fall of Narendra Modi\u2019s government would be \u201cinevitable\u201d if even a single genuine voter\u2019s name was deleted from the rolls in West Bengal.<\/p>\n
Addressing thousands of Trinamool Congress (TMC) supporters, Mamata said the BJP and the ECI were \u201ccolluding to erase voters\u201d from opposition-ruled states like West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, while sparing BJP-governed regions such as Assam and Tripura.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy this discrimination? This is a politically motivated move to help the BJP before elections,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The TMC chief accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, whom she mockingly called \u201ckursi babu\u201d, of working under political pressure. She questioned the haste in completing the SIR in a month when a similar exercise in 2002 had taken two years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf even one genuine voter\u2019s name is struck off, the BJP government will be shaken to its core,\u201d she warned, amid loud cheers from the crowd.<\/p>\n
Banerjee slammed the BJP\u2019s claims of \u201cillegal voters\u201d in Bengal, saying: \u201cJust because someone speaks Bengali, does that make them Bangladeshi? Speaking Urdu doesn\u2019t make anyone Pakistani. Bengal\u2019s identity cannot be insulted like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
She accused Indian Home Minister Amit Shah of hypocrisy, saying he attacked \u201cdynastic politics\u201d while promoting his own son. Banerjee also likened the SIR chaos to the Centre\u2019s demonetisation blunder, saying both had brought \u201cfear, hardship and humiliation\u201d to ordinary citizens.<\/p>\n
The Chief Minister alleged that BJP-backed officials were already deleting voters\u2019 names in the name of \u201cmapping\u201d, leading to panic deaths in some areas. \u201cPeople are dying due to the fear they are spreading,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Banerjee also cautioned citizens against fake data collectors posing as bank employees in Diamond Harbour, saying, \u201cGive your details only to official Booth Level Officers. We have set up a TMC helpdesk to assist people.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an emotional appeal, she asked, \u201cAfter serving as MP, central minister and chief minister for decades, do I still need to prove I\u2019m not a Bangladeshi?\u201d<\/p>\n
She vowed to continue the fight both in courts and on the streets, declaring, \u201cThis is not just Bengal\u2019s battle \u2014 it\u2019s about the soul of India, the right to vote, and the right to belong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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