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The Trinamool Congress connected Tuesday (December 30, 2025) deed backmost astatine Union Home Minister Amit Shah, accusing him of peddling falsehoods and making baseless claims astir securing a two-thirds bulk successful the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections.
Senior TMC person and State Education Minister Bratya Basu told reporters that Mr. Shah’s remarks were based connected hollow assertions and claimed that the BJP would not adjacent transverse the 50-seat people successful the polls.
"Shah volition support coming and going similar a tourist. Such visits volition service nary purpose," Mr. Basu said connected the sidelines of a programme.
"The BJP volition not adjacent transverse the 50-mark successful the assembly polls and endure a humiliating defeat," Mr. Basu claimed.
Addressing a property conference, Mr. Shah claimed that the BJP would signifier the adjacent authorities successful the State with a "two-thirds bulk successful 2026".
"We volition not lone place infiltrators, but we'll besides thrust them out. Bengal volition person a caller BJP authorities aft April 15, 2026, arsenic radical person made up their minds," helium said.
TMC spokesperson Jay Prakash Majumdar besides dismissed Mr. Shah’s assertion that the BJP does not prosecute successful temple-based polarising politics.
"Everyone knows the BJP campaigned connected temple-masjid authorities successful some the 2019 and 2024 elections. This marque of authorities volition again beryllium rejected by the radical of Bengal," Mr. Majumdar said.
