Tension is brewing in West Bengal’s political arena as TMC firebrand Kunal Ghosh launched a scathing attack on the Election Commission and BJP over the controversial Special Intensive Revision of voter lists. Addressing the media in Kolkata on March 4, Ghosh linked the SIR process to a recent death, holding the EC and BJP responsible.
‘Under BJP’s thumb, the Election Commission is malfunctioning, purging genuine voters,’ Ghosh charged. He emphasized TMC’s multi-pronged fight: street protests, legal battles, and Mamata Banerjee’s Supreme Court intervention. ‘Didi starts her dharna on Friday,’ he added, underscoring the fight against voter deletions.
Ghosh accused BJP of a deliberate smear campaign against Bengal, now escalating to vanishing real voters through conspiracy. He lampooned their pre-election wall writings as illiterate publicity stunts.
Jabbing at out-of-state BJP leaders, Ghosh called them ‘daily commuters with deep pockets,’ who repeated their 2021 flop—boasting 200 seats but scraping 60, followed by a panchayat debacle losing every district council.
Dismissing CPI(M) as BJP’s secondary squad with matching vote percentages, Ghosh hailed TMC’s grassroots connect under Banerjee and Abhishek. ‘Leftists never existed; they stayed home while we stood with the masses from day one,’ he concluded, rallying support for TMC’s dominance.