Trinamool Congress national general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee said that the party will take the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) fight to Delhi if even a single eligible voter is removed from Bengal's rolls, accusing the BJP and the Election Commission of India of acting in tande
BJP leader Dilip Ghosh claimed on Monday that since SIR has gained momentum, Bangladesh infiltrators are leaving India, and he alleged that TMC is staging a drama to protect them.
Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, termed the upcoming protest by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) as a 'deliberate' step to divert attention from the real issues.
"This election is a fight between the people and TMC... As a political party, we have to go to people's homes and assure them what the double-engine government will do... The people have decided that TMC will not remain in West Bengal," Bhattacharya said, on Saturday.
TMC leader Kunal Ghosh questioned the potential enforcement of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and said that if the BJP talks about Akhand Bharat, then why is it insisting on implementing SIR on Sunday.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday criticised BJP on Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and said another person from West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman had died allegedly of fear sparked by SIR.
BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Saturday hit out at TMC over its allegations of fraud in voter lists, saying the issue is not about "SIR" but "Samvidhan par vaar" and "Bachao apna apna parivaar".
West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) wrote a letter to the Chief Election Officer of West Bengal to file an FIR against Trinamool Congress leader Girindranath Barman for threatening the Booth Level Officer (BLO), a government employee.
All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) announced that it would set up Anchal (area) wise help desks from November 4 till December 4 in the wake of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process being conducted by the Election Commission in West Bengal, AITC sources said.
Ghosh stated that there are discrepancies in the voter list, with approximately 900 voters missing in the soft copy in Ashoknagar. He accused the Commission of "silent invisible rigging" and claimed that the hard copy of the 2002 voter list and the one uploaded on the Election Commission
Earlier today, TMC National General Secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee blamed Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for the death of Pradeep Kar, who allegedly took his own life due to anxiety over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rol
TMC National General Secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday blamed Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for the death of Pradeep Kar, who allegedly took his own life due to anxiety over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls