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NEW DELHI: West Bengal main curate Mamata Banerjee connected Tuesday said she"loves Bangladesh arsenic a country, due to the fact that their connection is same," earlier grooming guns astatine the BJP-led cardinal authorities and the Election Commission implicit the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll, informing that the workout indispensable not beryllium rushed up of the 2026 Assembly polls.Addressing an anti-SIR rally successful Bongaon, Banerjee asserted that she has nary fearfulness of the ruling party. "BJP cannot combat and decision maine politically," she said, accusing the Centre of utilizing the SIR workout to people voters.Referring to claims that the purpose of the SIR is to region Bangladeshi nationals from the elector list, she asked wherefore the workout was being conducted successful respective BJP-ruled states arsenic good and questioned the intent down the revision."I emotion Bangladesh arsenic a country, due to the fact that our connection is the same. I americium from Birbhum, but 1 time they volition telephone maine Bangladeshi. PM Modi got votes successful 2024 arsenic per the aforesaid list. If your sanction gets deleted, the Central authorities should besides beryllium deleted. Why conducting SIR successful specified a hurry?" she said."Till I americium here, I volition not let them to propulsion you out. Nobody tin propulsion you out. If Bangladeshi is simply a problem, past wherefore are you conducting SIR successful Madhya Pradesh and UP?" she asked.
Further indicating conditional enactment for the revision, Banerjee said, "If SIR is conducted implicit two-three years, we volition enactment the workout with each imaginable resource." The main curate accused the Election Commission of losing its neutrality, stating that the "EC is nary longer an impartial body, it has turned into a ‘BJP Commission’." She claimed that radical would realise the "disaster" caused by the EC and BJP erstwhile the draught elector database is published aft the SIR.
"Does conducting SIR successful BJP-ruled states connote the Centre accepts ‘ghuspaithiyas’ beryllium there?" she asked.These remarks travel arsenic the Election Commission has begun the 2nd signifier of the Special Intensive Revision crossed 12 states and Union Territories. The last electoral rotation is scheduled to beryllium published connected February 7, 2026. The archetypal signifier was carried retired successful Bihar earlier its Assembly elections.The existent signifier covers Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
