SIR deletions aimed at dividing Bengal: Mamata
Kolkata, March 8 -- Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday that the deletion of voters' names from the electoral roll after the Special Intensive Revision in West Bengal is aimed at dividing the state.
She also alleged that CV Ananda Bose was "threatened" and forced to resign as the Governor of West Bengal while calling RN Ravi, the new Governor, the "Bharatiya Janata Party's parrot."
"Beware BJP. You can't divide Bengal by deleting voters. Bengal knows how to fight. And if you cross the limits, your Delhi government will be toppled," Banerjee said while addressing a gathering at the site of her sit-in demonstration.
The chief minister's dharna in central Kolkata, held in order to protest the deletion of 6.3 million names during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll, entered its second day on Saturday.
More than 6.3 million voters' names were deleted from the final electoral roll released on February 28 after the SIR in the state. The fate of another six million still hangs in the balance as their claims are 'under adjudication' by court-appointed judicial officers.
"You want to divide Bengal, but first deal with Epstein. Is this why voters' names are being deleted? Voters' names are being deleted to divide Bengal?" wrote the Bengal CM.
"People are not being allowed to protest. The more you attack us, the stronger the retaliation would be," she said.
"Yesterday I saw an X-post. It must have been planted by those 'evil babus' who don't have any names. That a Union Territory would be carved out of Bihar and Bengal. Let them touch Bengal if they have the guts," she said.
"They want to divide Bengal. They did it once in Bihar by creating Jharkhand, and now they are trying to do it again. Wherever there is a double-engine government, there will be loot," she added.
The centre, however, has rubbished such claims on social media saying the claim was fake and no such proposal was under consideration....
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