Karimpur, April 13 -- Trinamool Congress (TMC) National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday accused the BJP of pursuing a politics of "detention and deprivation", positioning the TMC as a guarantor of "security and welfare" ahead of the West Bengal Assembly polls.
Addressing a rally here in Nadia district, Banerjee launched a scathing attack on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, alleging that the exercise had been used to instill fear among voters and arbitrarily curtail their democratic rights.
He claimed that people were made to stand in long queues only to find their names deleted, and called upon them to "give a fitting reply through the ballot".
Banerjee asserted that the alleged impact of the revisio...