BJP Accuses Mamata of Shielding ‘Infiltrators’, Blocking Voter List Clean-Up in Bengal

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday launched a scathing attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging that she is deliberately trying to derail the Election Commission’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state to protect “infiltrators” who form part of her vote bank.

Addressing the media, BJP national spokesperson Guru Prakash Paswan claimed that Trinamool Congress “goons” are openly threatening Booth Level Officers (BLOs) — most of whom are state government employees — and warning them against following the Election Commission’s directives.

“The moment SIR was announced in West Bengal, infiltrators started fleeing back to their country in large numbers. This itself proves that in areas like Kolkata, North and South 24 Parganas, the TMC’s leads come from illegal infiltrators turned into voters,” Paswan alleged.

He accused Mamata Banerjee of creating an atmosphere of fear and intimidation to obstruct a purely constitutional process that was carried out peacefully in Bihar and several other states.

Responding to the Chief Minister’s letter to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Thursday — in which she termed the SIR “unplanned, coercive and dangerous” — Paswan said the TMC was unable to digest its defeat in Bihar, where a similar exercise had helped clean the voter list.

“The Supreme Court has upheld SIR as a historic and constitutional process under Articles 324-325. Yet Mamata Banerjee is playing letter games and casting aspersions on the Election Commission only because infiltrators are her vote bank,” the BJP leader charged.

Paswan urged the Election Commission to take firm action to ensure the revision exercise proceeds without hindrance.

“If required, deploy additional central forces and tighten administrative oversight. The rights of genuine voters cannot be sacrificed for vote-bank politics and appeasement,” he said, adding that the EC must ensure the process in West Bengal is completed as smoothly and transparently as it was in Bihar.

The war of words has intensified political tensions in the state, with the BJP framing the voter-list revision as a direct challenge to what it calls the TMC’s “infiltration-backed politics.”

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