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CM Mamata Banerjee: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has made a big attack on Amit Shah on Wednesday before the elections.
CM Mamata Banerjee: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has made a big attack on Amit Shah on Wednesday before the elections. He alleged that Home Minister Amit Shah was behind the move to implement Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists in the state a few months before the assembly elections. Addressing a rally in Malda, Banerjee described SIR as a politically motivated exercise aimed at harassing voters. He claimed that Amit Shah is behind this move to implement SIR in Bengal just before the elections. The Chief Minister said that he wants to capture Bengal at any cost, but he will get a befitting reply. Mamata claimed that the BJP has miscalculated the political impact of the voter verification exercise.
TMC will start ‘Can I help you’
Banerjee said that BJP has dug its own grave by implementing SIR in Bengal. Bengal and Bihar are not the same. However, he said that his party TMC is not opposing this exercise, but you have to give appropriate time to do it. You cannot do things in a hurry to fulfill the political agenda of BJP. Banerjee also announced that from December 12, TMC will start ‘Can I Help You’ camps across the state to assist people when the SIR hearing begins later this month. Taking aim at the ideological views of the saffron party, he said that we do not need to learn Hindutva from BJP. He also mentioned the case of Sunali Khatoon, a pregnant woman who was deported to Bangladesh along with her eight-year-old son.
Questions raised on BSF
The Chief Minister said that the Supreme Court had asked the Center to bring Khatoon back. We fought the case in court. Questioning the conduct of the central forces, he said that Sunali was an Indian, then why did the BSF send the pregnant woman to Bangladesh? Was he sent across the border as a Bangladeshi just because he is Bengali? Reiterating her stance on citizenship issues, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee stressed that as long as I am here, no Bengali will be sent to any detention camp or sent back. Mamta Banerjee said that she will return to power in Bengal with full majority. BJP’s plans will not succeed.
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