"Election Commission is supreme": BJP's Suvendu Adhikari slams WB CM Mamata Banerjee over criticising Bihar's SIR

Jalpaiguri (West Bengal) [India], July 22 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari on Monday hit out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's recent statement opposing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar.
Earlier, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday slammed the Election Commission of India, stating that the electoral body has removed 40 lakh voters from the list in Bihar and claimed that it wants to do the same in West Bengal as well.
"ECI removed over 40 lakh names from the voters' list in Bihar, and now you want to do the same in Bengal? Try it, and we will launch a Gherao movement. We brought our people back from detention once, we fought in court and won. We will not let this new law stand. We will fight, we will change it, we will not accept it", Mamata Banerjee said during her address.
Adhikari said that in India's constitution, the Election Commission is "supreme," and whatever the electoral body does, it will happen. He mentioned that no "Rohingya Muslims, Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators" will be allowed to enter the voter list.
"In the country's constitution, the Election Commission is supreme; whatever the Election Commission does will happen. Rohingya Muslims, Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators will not be in the voter list...Mamata Banerjee is a 'chor', his nephew is a 'chor'. The entire family is 'chor'," he said.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) is conducting a Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in the state ahead of the 2025 Bihar assembly elections.
Earlier on July 16, Suvendu Adhikari called for a similar action in West Bengal as is happening in Bihar to delete all Rohingya Muslims' names from the voter list.
While speaking to ANI, Adhikari said, "We marched here along with the BJP MLAs and BJP leaders. The exercise that is happening in Bihar should happen here as well. The names of lakhs of Rohingya Muslims are in the voter list here, they should be removed... This is not a question of Bengalis or the Bengali language. This is a question of national interest. Bengal has to be saved..." (ANI)