Mamata Accused of Threatening EC Officials Over Voter List
BJP slams Mamata for shielding illegal voters in Bengal.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of threatening state officials to defy the Election Commission’s (EC) directives during the upcoming electoral roll revision. The charge, led by BJP’s West Bengal co-incharge Amit Malviya, follows Banerjee’s instructions to officials to prevent harassment during the voter list update, alleging that the BJP and EC are targeting Bengali-speaking migrants, minorities, OBCs, and the poor to remove genuine voters.
Speaking at an administrative meeting in Bolpur, Banerjee criticized the EC’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, currently underway in Bihar, as a “politically motivated act” to exclude certain communities. She directed booth-level officers, as state employees, to ensure no long-term voters are arbitrarily removed, emphasizing that temporary absences should not lead to deletions from the voter list.
Malviya, in a fiery X post, accused Banerjee of “openly threatening” EC officials to protect her “illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya vote bank,” claiming her Trinamool Congress (TMC) relies on “bogus votes” to survive. He called her actions a “direct assault on India’s Constitution and democracy.” The EC recently announced that electoral roll revisions will extend to all states post-Bihar, ahead of West Bengal’s 2026 polls.
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The controversy underscores escalating tensions between the TMC and BJP, with the latter alleging Banerjee’s resistance to a clean voter list threatens electoral integrity.
