Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday accused the Trinamool Congress of diverting attention from key issues in West Bengal, saying the real concerns are unemployment and crimes against women.
Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of misleading Hindu voters over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, alleging that false narratives were being spread to discourage Hindus from applying under the CAA.
"We have requested the EC that they review the document list for the SIR in West Bengal because a lot of documents in are fake and issued illegally there. Unauthorised officials have also issued documents. We have demanded that the Election Commission hold a verification by appropriate of
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.
Following the announcement of the second phase of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) covering 12 states and union territories, BJP leader Jagnnath Sarkar on Saturday emphasised the need for the exercise, stating that the future of Hindustan can only be decided by its citizens and not by any
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.
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.
The West Bengal Police plans to form a special AI Cell with expertise in skills that will help officers in their transparency policy formation, strategy, and decision-making within the force.
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