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Amit Shah behind SIR 'ploy' in Bengal; BJP dug its own grave by rushing it: Mamata
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....mit Shah behind SIR 'ploy' in Bengal; BJP dug its own grave by rushing it: Mamata<BR>PTI News<BR>Dated:- 3-12-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Malda, Dec 3 (PTI) Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday tore into the BJP over the Election Commission's rollout of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls months before the Assembly polls, accusing Union Home Minister Amit Shah of "orchestrating" the ....
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....exercise to unsettle voters and "capture West Bengal by trickery". Addressing a massive anti-SIR rally in Malda's Gazole, Banerjee said the saffron camp had "miscalculated the pulse of Bengal" and ended up "digging its own grave" by pushing for a hurried revision process that triggered panic among citizens. "In February, Bengal election dates will be announced, so they did this SIR on purpose th....
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....ree months earlier. Shah has done this so that either you follow SIR or topple the government by imposing President's rule. Shah is behind this ploy of implementing SIR just before elections," she alleged. "Shah wants to capture Bengal at any cost. But the BJP must remember, by doing SIR in Bengal, you have dug your own grave. Bengal and Bihar are not the same. Bengal cannot be won like you did i....
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....n Bihar. You cannot win Bengal by cleverness and trickery," she said. She alleged that the EC's November 4 rollout of SIR had unleashed "widespread fear", with people believing their names would be arbitrarily dropped from the voters' list. "Till now, 39 ordinary citizens, including four BLOs, have died due to SIR panic, suicides included. We are helping their families. This cannot continue," sh....
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....e added. Similar incidents, she claimed, had occurred in other states as well. Banerjee clarified that the TMC was not opposing the revision itself but the "politically motivated haste". "We are not against SIR or census. But why the tearing hurry? A citizen again has to prove he is a citizen. Why?" she asked. "This has been done to disrupt Bengal's development work. They have blocked our dues....
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...., yet we are running schemes. Now they want to wreck everything in the name of SIR," she said. The chief minister announced that from December 12, the state government will set up statewide "May I Help You" camps to assist citizens when SIR hearings begin later this month. She appealed to migrant workers to ensure they fill up their forms, warning that "names may be struck off if forms are not s....
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....ubmitted". Ratcheting up her attack on the BJP's ideological thrust, Banerjee asserted, "We don't need to learn Hindutva from the BJP. I do not practise communal politics; I practise secular politics. When I go to churches, I follow their rules. Same when I go to gurdwaras and mosques. Why do you object only to Muslim culture? Everyone has their own culture. I respect every religion. I will not a....
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....llow unrest in Bengal." Without naming the BJP-led Union government, she fired a sharp warning, "You think you can do everything with brute force? You want to create an Emergency-like situation? Remember, people speak the last word. People will not forgive you." "The BJP is like bed bugs; they bite till you remove them. They must be removed politically so Bengal is no longer harmed," she thunder....
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....ed. The BJP, she said, "doesn't allow the Centre to clear funds and spreads lies on social media, uses AI to circulate misinformation with my face even though it's not me," adding that "they loot and then say Jhoot (falsehood)." She also accused the Centre of withholding funds. "We get only GST. All our tax money is taken away by the Centre. Bengal is supposed to get Rs 1.87 lakh-crore, but it ....
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....has been withheld. And then they want to grab Bengal forcefully?" she said. Banerjee referred to the case of Sunali (Sonali) Khatun, the pregnant woman and her child pushed into Bangladesh earlier this year, whose return the Supreme Court allowed on humanitarian grounds on Wednesday. "The court asked the Centre to bring back Sonali Khatun. We fought the case," she said. "Sonali is an Indian. Th....
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....en why did the BSF push a pregnant woman to Bangladesh? Was it because she is Bengali? Is that why she was branded Bangladeshi and thrown across the border?" The Supreme court on Wednesday allowed on "humanitarian grounds" the entry of a pregnant woman and her eight-year-old child into India, months after they were pushed into Bangladesh. The top court was hearing a plea of the Centre challengin....
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....g the September 26 order of the Calcutta High Court by which it had set aside the central government's decision to deport Khatun and others to Bangladesh and termed it "illegal". Reiterating her position on citizenship and deportation issues, Banerjee said, "As long as I am here, no Bengali will be pushed back or sent to a detention camp." The showdown over SIR comes as Bengal heads into its mos....
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....t polarised Assembly election in years, with the TMC framing the revision as a tool for intimidation and the BJP insisting it is a routine process. Banerjee, however, insisted she was in Malda not to seek votes but to "stand by anxious citizens". "I have not come to ask for votes," she said. "I have come to stand by you. Do not be afraid. No one will go to a detention camp. Your names will not b....
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....e dropped. Bengal will remain safe." PTI PNT MNB<BR> News - Press release - PIB....