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Accusing Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar of threatening officials of West Bengal during a gathering successful Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Monday (March 9, 2026) said he was behaving similar a ‘”superman” and “super God”.
Ms. Banerjee, who has been sitting connected a objection astatine Esplanade successful Kolkata against the alleged exclusion of voters’ names during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, claimed that Mr. Kumar warned officials that enactment would beryllium taken against past adjacent aft the Assembly polls successful May.
“Today I heard that officers of West Bengal were threatened. It is bully to person courage, but not mendacious bravado. Will you stay successful your seat aft May? First determine that earlier threatening officials and the radical of West Bengal,” she said.
During the gathering with officials. Mr. Kumar reportedly said that immoderate lapse successful maintaining instrumentality and bid up of the elections would not beryllium tolerated, and strict enactment would travel if officials failed to discharge their responsibilities properly.
From the dharna mancha, the Trinamool Congress chairperson besides challenged the BJP and said that successful the involvement of escaped and just polls, the saffron enactment indispensable guarantee that those connected the adjudication database are allowed to vote. About 60 lakh electors are nether adjudication pursuing the work of the last electoral rolls.
Earlier successful the day, the Chief Minister asked enactment members to “catch” BJP workers and record FIRs against them for allegedly distributing pamphlets adjacent the protestation site.
“I americium informing everyone present astatine the dharna. The BJP is utilizing their bureau extracurricular this country to administer posters and leaflets. Catch them and manus them implicit to the police. They tin travel and perceive to us, but they bash not have the right to distribute leaflets astatine different political party’s event,” she said.
Ms. Banerjee has been connected a sit-in objection since March 6, and the signifier has turned into a gathering constituent for Trinamool Congress leaders, immoderate of whom person utilized the level to motorboat crisp attacks against governmental opponents.
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, who addressed the gathering connected Sunday, targeted those not supporting the ruling party. “Whoever is not lasting with the Trinamool close present is not a (true) Bengali and should not beryllium staying successful Bengal,” Ms. Moitra said.
Her remarks drew sharp disapproval from the BJP. Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari said nary 1 needed a “Bengali certificate” from radical similar Ms. Moitra.
Two days ago, TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee alleged that Election Commission officials, including the Chief Election Commissioner, had mistreated Ms. Banerjee erstwhile she went to conscionable the officials successful Delhi successful February.
“They were pointing fingers astatine Mamata Banerjee portion speaking. How situation they bash that? If you were not the Chief Election Commissioner, I would person chopped your digit and thrown it away,” Mr. Banerjee had said.
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress wide caput and party’s second-in-command Abhishek Banerjee utilized the protest level to telephone for a societal boycott of the BJP, saying that simply not voting for the enactment would nt beryllium enough and radical should boycott it.
