Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday took to the streets of Kolkata, spearheading a massive rally against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Launching a sharp attack on the BJP, Banerjee said, “Many unorganised sector workers are thinking whether their names will be removed. Talking in Bangla does not mean Bangladeshi, just like speaking in Hindi or Punjabi does not mean Pakistani.
She added, BJP is a lootera party. They have used several agencies, spread fake news and misinformation. But you will not be in power in the future. Banerjee, accompanied by her nephew and party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, led thousands of supporters through the heart of the city. The 3.8-km march started at the statue of BR Ambedkar on Red Road and made its way towards Jorasanko Thakur Bari, the ancestral residence of Rabindranath Tagore, where it was set to conclude.
Clad in her familiar white cotton saree and slippers, the chief minister walked at the front of the procession, pausing occasionally to greet residents who leaned out from balconies or stood by the roadside to catch a glimpse. Warning the BJP against voter deletions, he added, “If a single legal voter loses his name, TMC will show the power of the people of Bengal in Delhi.” He also accused the Centre of “doing drama by setting up CAA camps” and cautioned that “if you fall in their trap, you will lose everything, just like 12 lakh Hindu Bengalis lost their voting rights in Assam due to NRC.
Be ready for a mega protest in Delhi,” he declared, alleging that “PM Modi, as per his whims and fancies, is dictating terms to common people, be it demonetisation or asking for documents for citizenship. The BJP, however, hit back sharply. Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, described Tuesday’s march as a “rally of Jamat” and claimed it went “against the ethos of the Indian Constitution.”
Echoing that sentiment, West Bengal BJP President Samik Bhattacharya said, “If Mamata ji has to say something, then she needs to knock the doors of the Supreme Court. There is total Mamata Banerjee leads SIR protest march in Bengal, BJP calls it rally of Jamat anarchy and a total absence of law and order in West Bengal. He accused Mamata Banerjee of hypocrisy, saying she once led protests against illegal infiltrators and manipulated voter lists during the Left regime but now “blocks the Centre’s efforts to fence the open border.”
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