Mamata: Will sit on dharna if genuine voters are deleted during SIR
Times of India | 12 December 2025
Krishnanagar/Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday she would sit on dharna if the name of even one genuine voter gets deleted during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls. The CM called Union home minister Amit Shah "dangerous" and said EC cannot tailor voters' list on BJP's IT cell's prompts.
Speaking at a rally at the Matua stronghold of Krishnanagar, Banerjee said, "BJP is sending people from Delhi to pressurize DMs with the intent to remove 1.5 crore names from the voters' list. I will sit on protest if any name is deliberately removed. "
Addressing a rally a day after Shah reiterated his "detect, delete, deport" comment in context of SIR, the CM said, "There's a (Union) home minister whose eyes are terrifying. They seem to signal disaster. There's nothing he cannot do. In one eye, he has Duryodhan, and in another Dushasan."
Shah had, while speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, warned Trinamool members saying, "If you stand by infiltrators, you will be wiped out from Bengal." The CM, in response, said, "There will be no NRC, no detention camp in Bengal…We will not allow anyone to be expelled from Bengal. If they are, we know how to bring them back."
"People elect the govt, not the EC. The EC only works on complaints raised by BJP. You want to conduct an election on the electoral roll prepared by BJP IT cell," she said.
"Bihar couldn't resist, Bengal will. Unleash as many agencies as you can. Don't go near the BSF in border areas. The Union home minister can do anything. He may ask to tag people in border areas Rohingya and Bangladeshi," the CM said.