‘Demography plot’: TMC's Abhishek Banerjee accuses BJP of 'importing' voters into Bengal

NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress person Abhishek Banerjee connected Tuesday launched a crisp onslaught connected the BJP, accusing it of attempting to manipulate West Bengal’s electoral rotation up of the 2026 assembly polls.Addressing a rally successful Balurghat successful enactment of TMC campaigner Arpita Ghosh, Banerjee alleged a “conspiracy to alteration Bengal’s demography”, claiming that voters from BJP-ruled states were being brought into the state. “Efforts are being made to guarantee that the radical of Bengal cannot workout their antiauthoritarian rights. Voters are being brought into antithetic parts of Bengal from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh,” helium said, adding that helium had lodged a ailment with the Election Commission.The TMC nationalist wide caput besides turned his occurrence connected the BJP’s governance grounds successful Balurghat, represented by a BJP MP and MLA for implicit 5 years. Without naming Union curate Sukanta Majumdar, helium challenged the enactment to contiguous a “report card”. “No 1 has experienced the alleged double-engine authorities much than the radical of Balurghat… yet they person not been capable to bring adjacent 10 paise of further funds oregon development,” helium said.

Banerjee contrasted this with the authorities government’s payment schemes, pointing to initiatives specified arsenic Lakshmir Bhandar, Pathashree and Yuva Sathi. He claimed that benefits nether these schemes had reached radical directly, adding that funds nether Yuva Sathi were transferred wrong 15 days of announcement. Taking purpose astatine BJP promises to grow fiscal assistance schemes, helium said, “I situation them to archetypal instrumentality specified a strategy successful immoderate BJP-ruled state… if they tin bash that, I volition halt campaigning for the TMC.

”The onslaught was echoed by West Bengal Chief Minister

Mamata Banerjee

, who alleged that the BJP was attempting to see “illegal voters” from states specified arsenic Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana successful Bengal’s electoral rolls. She claimed that thousands of applications had been submitted successful a azygous time and accused the enactment of utilizing akin tactics elsewhere.Mamata Banerjee besides accused the BJP of colluding with the Election Commission and deleting names of genuine voters, peculiarly women and minorities, during the revision process. She described the workout arsenic “illegal, unconstitutional and fundamentally undemocratic”, informing that radical would defy immoderate effort to “squeeze successful amerciable voters”.