KOLKATA: In a fiery outburst, Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh has accused the Election Commission of India and the BJP of orchestrating a sinister plot through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of West Bengal’s voter lists. Speaking on March 4, Ghosh claimed that this process has led to yet another tragedy, squarely blaming the poll body and the saffron party.
Ghosh alleged that the Election Commission is acting under BJP’s directives, systematically deleting legitimate voters from the rolls. ‘The TMC stands firmly with the people against this injustice,’ he declared. ‘We are on the streets, in the courts, and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has already raised the issue in the Supreme Court.’ He announced that Banerjee would begin a sit-in protest starting Friday to highlight the deletions of legal voters.
Targeting the BJP’s efforts to tarnish Bengal’s image, Ghosh said the party is conspiring to erase genuine voters ahead of elections. He mocked their wall graffiti campaigns as mere photo-ops, noting that BJP leaders can’t even read the Bengali slogans properly.
Ghosh took a dig at BJP’s ‘political tourists’ from other states, who he said flock to Bengal with money and hotel bookings but fail miserably. ‘They chanted ‘Abki Baar 200 Paar’ in 2021, contested 77 seats, ended up with just 60, lost the 2023 panchayat polls, and all district council seats,’ he ridiculed.
He also branded CPI(M) as the BJP’s ‘B-team,’ pointing out their vote shares are neck-and-neck, with Left influence waning while BJP’s rises slightly. ‘TMC has always been with the people under Mamata Didi and Abhishek Banerjee,’ Ghosh asserted, dismissing Left’s relevance as non-existent.