Mamata Banerjee slams Amit Shah as 'dangerous', warns of dharnas if any eligible voter is deleted from list during SIR

Accusing the Centre of targeting Bengalis, Mamata Banerjee said, “We person a [Union] Home Minister who tin bash thing to statement each Bengalis arsenic Bangladeshis and nonstop them to detention camps.”

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) called Union Home Minister Amit Shah “dangerous” and warned that she would beryllium connected a dharna if adjacent a azygous eligible voter’s sanction were struck disconnected the electoral rolls during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Launching a blistering onslaught connected Mr. Shah, the Chief Minister said astatine a rally successful Krishnanagar successful Nadia district, “The country’s HomeMinister is dangerous. You tin spot it successful hiseyes — it’s terrifying. In 1 eye, you spot ‘Duryodhan’, and successful the other, ‘Dushasan’.”

Alleging that the SIR was being utilized arsenic a governmental limb up of the 2026 Assembly polls, Ms. Banerjee said, “If adjacent a azygous eligible voter’s sanction is struck off, I volition beryllium connected a dharna. There volition beryllium nary detention camps successful West Bengal. They are truthful bare for votes that they are conducting the SIR conscionable 2 months earlier elections.” Ms. Banerjeesaid that she had not filled retired her enumeration signifier truthful far.

“Do I present request to beryllium my citizenship to a enactment of rioters?” she said, successful an evident notation to the BJP.

Accusing the Centre of targeting Bengalis, Ms. Banerjee said, “We person a [Union] Home Minister who tin bash thing to statement each Bengalis arsenic Bangladeshis and nonstop them to detention camps. But we volition not let anyone to beryllium driven retired of West Bengal. We cognize precise good however to bring idiosyncratic backmost if they are forced out.” The Chief Minister further alleged that the Election Commission was deploying officers aligned with the BJP to power the process.

“Some BJP-backed radical are being sent from Delhi to support an oculus connected things successful West Bengal. They are overseeing the enactment of territory magistrates during SIR hearings,” she claimed.