Kolkata, March 24 -- The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of "declaring war" against West Bengal and taking "arbitrary steps" to "cripple" the state administration.
State Education Minister Bratya Basu drew a parallel between the current Indian scenario and Adolf Hitler's Germany in 1939, referring to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
"What Gyanesh Kumar is doing would shame even a dictatorship. Before starting World War II on September 1, 1939, Hitler had attacked and seized Sudetenland (in October, 1938). The first thing that Hitler did was to snatch the voting rights of the people there. Goebbels had carried out a campaign of lies, falsehood and misleading propaganda, to help Hitle...