Krishnanagar (WB): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday intensified her attack on Union Home Minister Amit Shah, calling him “dangerous” and accusing the Centre and EC of using the SIR of electoral rolls to unlawfully delete names of lakhs of eligible Bengali voters ahead of the 2026 assembly polls.
Addressing a rally in Nadia district’s Krishnanagar, Banerjee alleged that Shah was directly guiding attempts to remove as many as “1.5 crore names” from the voters’ list, and warned that she would sit on an indefinite dharna if even a single eligible voter was excluded during the SIR exercise.
“The country’s home minister is dangerous. His two eyes send a message of disaster — in one eye you see Duryodhan, and in the other, Dushasan,” Banerjee said, dramatically intensifying the rhetoric she has been using over the past week in her public meetings.
Banerjee said that she herself had not filled out her enumeration form so far.
“Do I now need to prove my citizenship to a party of rioters?” she said, in an apparent reference to the BJP.
Accusing the Centre of targeting Bengalis, Banerjee said, “We have a (Union) home minister who can do anything to label all Bengalis as Bangladeshis and send them to detention camps. But we will not allow anyone to be driven out of West Bengal. We know very well how to bring someone back if they are forced out.”
The chief minister further alleged that the Election Commission was deploying officers aligned with the BJP to influence the process.
“Some BJP-backed people are being sent from Delhi to keep an eye on things in West Bengal. They are overseeing the work of district magistrates during SIR hearings,” she claimed.
