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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Tuesday (March 17, 2026) tore into the Election Commission of India for transferring apical bureaucrats successful the State and said the canvass assemblage should “start campaigning for the BJP”.
The Chief Minister said the enactment volition contention 291 seats successful the West Bengal polls and volition triumph much than 226 seats.
Hours aft the announcement of Assembly predetermination successful West Bengal, the Election Commission precocious connected Sunday transferred the Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, and the Director-General of Police, among others.
Ms. Banerjee said each the transfers were done astatine “the behest of the BJP”.
“EC is playing a crippled connected behalf of the BJP. It should present commencement campaigning for the party,” the Chief Minister said astatine a property league wherever she announced the party’s candidates for the Assembly elections.
Ms. Banerjee alleged that the transfers were done to “distribute cash” up of the elections and “trigger riots”. “Why was determination truthful overmuch hurry,” she asked. “The BJP wants to gobble up Bengal. They person go greedy,” she said.
The Chief Minister said the upcoming predetermination was a “fight for survival” for Bengal. “And Bengal volition triumph successful this fight. The Modi authorities is anti-farmer and anti-women. They person insulted the radical and polity of Bengal, and I impulse the nationalist to thatch them a lesson,” she said.
Likening the BJP to migratory birds, Ms. Banerjee said that the saffron enactment knows lone to onslaught with guns and administer cash. Slamming the Centre for the LPG situation successful the aftermath of the West Asia conflict, Ms. Banerjee said, “They don’t person LPG state but person cash.”
Just aft the transfers, Ms. Banerjee had said, “Change everything but you volition not beryllium capable to alteration the authorities successful the State.”
