Abhishek stresses on 100pc submission of enumeration forms
The Statesman | 25 November 2025
Trinamul Congress will intensify the movement against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the coming days and the vote raksha shivirs, camps and war rooms will continue till the 31 January. The call was to be “battle ready”, said party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee today.
Mr Banerjee held a virtual meeting with party functionaries. More than 24,000 leaders, across the state, including MP, MLAs, frontal heads, state committee members, among others were part of the mega virtual meeting today.
A 10-member MP delegation will visit ECI in next few days, said sources privy of the developments.
The national general secretary is said to have emphasised that performance is the only key. Abhishek mentioned that the SIR was launched by ECI without consultation by the state in an unplanned manner. Three BLOs have died and 4 are in hospital. He called the exercise “Bangla-Birodhi”. Abhishek cited the cases of Delhi and Maharashtra, where the ECI was used to form govt and that they are trying to do the same in Bengal, which is the reason why the vote raksha shivir are being launched.
Sources said that Abhishek laid stress on 100 per cent submission of enumeration forms. For the next 7-10 days, Abhishek is supposed to have set responsibilities for party MLAs and MPs. The MLAs for next 10 days will reach out to BLA 2s over phone or their home and ask them to be active and encourage them over video calls. They will also take feedbacks on BLO’s role and people’s response. Abhishek has requested the MPs, the Rajya Sabha ones will call up 50 panchayat electoral roll supervisors daily, while the Lok Sabha MPs will call block electoral roll supervisors and town electoral roll supervisors and encourage them. This is to continue for next seven days.
The NGS is supposed to have laid down that every 15 days a report is to be sent to party chairperson Mamata Banerjee on this. He is also supposed to have talked about submitting a report next on 6th about the role of MPs and MLAs for this task.
The Trinamul will also raise the issue of SIR legally and take it up in the parliament session too. “We wanted it to be discussed last time also but the BJP didn’t allow it,” he is supposed to have said.
He said that despite SC order the central govt has not released MGNREGA funds for the state. “They have issue with people of Bengal, they hate Bengalis. During Parliament session we will send two delegations, one at panchayat & rural development ministry while other to jal shakti ministry. In the upcoming days we will lead a mega protest in Delhi. Let’s see how BJP or Delhi Police would stop us for fighting for common people and their rights,” Abhishek is supposed to have told party leaders.
The party leaders were also told to inform the people that the BJP wants to shut Lakshmir Bhandar, which the BJP leaders is supposed to have said time and again.
The party leaders also discussed about the functioning of districts with Abhishek praising Hooghly, Howrah, South 24-Parganas, Uttar Dinajpur, while raising concerns on North Kolkata, South Kolkata, Krishnanagar, Purba Medinipura and Bongaon.
Assembly areas that did exceptionally well – Dhanekhali, Haripal, Singur, Karindighi, Tarkeshwar, Bally, Goalpokhur, Raghunathgunj, Chakulia, Raiganj, while Assemblies that didn’t perform well are Ballygunge, Bongaon, Dakshin Beleghata, Entally, Madhyamgram, Kolkata Port, Kashipur Belgachia, and Chowringhee.
At the meeting it was also decided that leaders to visit War Rooms are Aroop Biswas, Snehasis Chakraborty, Manas Bhunia, Moloy Ghatak, Becharam Manna, Samirul Islam, Prasun Banerjee, Pradip Majumdar, Dilip Mondol, Chandrima Bhattacharya, Sujit Bose, Ritabrata Banerjee, Udayan Guha and Firhad Hakim in Kolkata.