TMC MP slams ECI for SIR through backdoor in Bengal
The Statesman | 3 September 2025He was addressing a gathering at Dharmatala crossing this afternoon.
He said the party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has rightly pointed out that SIR is ‘Silent Invisible Rigging’. He maintained that the number of voters went up in Maharastra and Delhi before the Assembly election. “The ECI will try the same experiment in Bengal completely forgetting that the state is different from other states in India. “It was in Bengal that renaissance took place in the 19th century and at the same time the movement to throw out the British started from here. Bengal had produced the highest number of freedom fighters who laid down their lives to free the country.”
Coming down heavily on the BJP he said the saffron party had removed the chapter on Mughal empire from the NCERT books. “Once I asked the Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan that how could you include a chapter on Rana Pratap if the chapter on Mughal empire is dropped from the syllabus.”
The TMC MP said in Uttar Pradesh, chapters on Rabindranath Tagore have been dropped from the syllabus. “It is unfortunate that at a time when more and more people are reading Tagore, his work and philosophy and the language in which he had written his literature has been attacked.”
He said Trinamul Congress will not yield to any pressure. It will continue to raise its voice against SIR and NRC.
