In a blistering rebuttal to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s resistance against voter list revisions, West Bengal BJP has branded her as desperate to ram through elections using a defective electoral roll riddled with inaccuracies.
Suvendu Adhikari, BJP’s state president and MP, accused TMC of a deliberate plot to derail the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). ‘Mamata Banerjee is impatient to hold polls with this error-plagued list—it’s their master plan,’ he told reporters in Kolkata.
Adhikari painted a harrowing post-poll scenario since 2021: over 56 BJP cadres killed, 27 women gang-raped, with CBI investigations hampered by police evidence destruction. A fresh brutality near the capital—a councillor’s fatal kick—exemplifies the anarchy, he said.
Dilip Ghosh, another key BJP figure, mocked Mamata’s Supreme Court move against SIR. Speaking exclusively, he remarked, ‘Confident of victory? Go fight it out. This drama is pointless.’ He lambasted the government’s courtroom losing streak, attributing it to frivolous petitions without merit, leaving courts flooded with cases against the administration.
The attacks extended to systemic bias: targeting Hindus, forcing migrations from Murshidabad to Malda; village-level assaults on women; harassment of opposition workers; police aiding TMC by dismantling BJP banners. ‘TMC and police are in cahoots, stifling democracy,’ Ghosh alleged.
With stakes high for electoral integrity, BJP positions itself as the guardian against manipulation, urging judicial intervention to ensure fair polls. The SIR standoff underscores deepening divides in Bengal’s polarized politics.