Amit Shah ‘Duryodhan’ and ‘Dushasan’; he is ‘dangerous’: Mamata
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Krishnanagar/West Bengal: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday intensified her attack on Union Home Minister Amit Shah, calling him "dangerous" and accusing the Centre and EC of using the SIR of electoral rolls to unlawfully delete names of lakhs of eligible Bengali voters ahead of the 2026 assembly polls, PTI reported.
Addressing a rally in Nadia district's Krishnanagar, Banerjee alleged that Shah was directly guiding attempts to remove as many as "1.5 crore names" from the voters' list, and warned that she would sit on an indefinite dharna if even a single eligible voter was excluded during the SIR exercise.
"The country's home minister is dangerous. His two eyes send a message of disaster — in one eye you see Duryodhan, and in the other, Dushasan," Banerjee said, dramatically intensifying the rhetoric she has been using over the past week in her public meetings.
She also accused the BJP of attempting to weaponise the SIR exercise barely two months before the polls.
"They are so hungry for votes that they have launched the SIR now. If any eligible person's name is struck off, I will sit on a dharna till it's restored. There will be no detention camps in West Bengal," she said.
Banerjee claimed that district magistrates were being pressured to remove 1.5 crore names during the revision.
"In Bihar you may have managed it, but you cannot do this in Bengal," she said, alleging that the draft rolls were being prepared "at the instruction of the BJP's IT cell."
The chief minister cited reports that individuals who had submitted names of grandparents as part of their documentation would be called for hearings and risk deletion from the rolls.
"Now we hear those who gave their grandparents' names will be summoned, and the plan is to strike off names directly from these hearings," she said.