Ahead of Shah’s Bengal visit, BJP seeks to reassure Hindu voters amid deletion fear
Times of India | 29 December 2025
Kolkata: A day before Union home minister Amit Shah's scheduled visit to the state, Bengal BJP on Sunday sought to reassure Hindu voters amid concerns over large-scale deletions during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Shah, who will be on a three-day tour of Bengal, is scheduled to arrive in Kolkata on Monday evening.
Trinamool is trying to divide the BJP's Hindu vote bank," Union minister and former Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar said on Sunday.
Majumdar added that the party in office was now "afraid of a division in Muslim vote bank after Humayun Kabir floated a new party."
Meanwhile, Union minister Giriraj Singh on Sunday said minority appeasement was likely to prove counterproductive for the Trinamool. "Desperate to hold on to power, TMC is trying to turn Bengal into Bangladesh. While Hindus are being tortured in Bangladesh, CM Mamata Banerjee is offering jobs to Rohingya," Singh said.
Shah is likely to visit the BJP's Salt Lake office around 7.30pm and hold a meeting with state functionaries. "An organisational meeting is scheduled on Tuesday. Shah might attend a programme at Maniktala. He is also likely to attend a few organisational meetings on Wednesday," a state BJP neta said.
With SIR set to be one of the focal points of Shah's meetings, Majumdar said: "The Election Commission's role is to ensure that the voter list is error-free. Their job is not to find if any Bangladeshi or Rohingya has been included in the electoral roll. However, BJP is going to win the election even if a single name is not deleted during the SIR."