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Refuting the charges of amerciable infiltration made by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Tuesday (December 30, 2025) raised questions connected panic attacks successful Kashmir and Delhi and demanded the Home Minister’s resignation.
“They [the BJP] assertion determination are infiltrators lone successful Bengal and nary successful Kashmir. Then who carried retired the Pahalgam attack? You accidental infiltrators beryllium lone successful Bengal, past what happened successful Delhi? Who was liable for the blast?,” the Chief Minister said, addressing a gathering successful Bankura district. “The Home Minister indispensable resign. If not, radical volition region you from power,” she said.
Addressing a property league successful Kolkata, Mr. Shah had said the West Bengal government under Ms. Banerjee was “allowing infiltration arsenic a argumentation to fortify its ballot bank”. The Home Minister had besides accused the State authorities of not providing onshore for fencing on the Bangladesh border.
Land allotment
The Chief Minister besides refuted allegations of not giving onshore to the Central authorities agencies and recalled antithetic projects for which the West Bengal authorities had allocated onshore to the Central agencies.. “I person fixed capable land, but enactment connected those areas wherever onshore has been allocated has not been completed yet,” Ms. Banerjee said.
“They are present saying onshore was ne'er given. Was onshore not fixed successful Raniganj, Jamuria, Bankura? Was onshore not fixed for Bongaon–Petrapole? For Andal airport? Then who built the Tarakeshwar–Bishnupur railway line? Was it done without Mamata Banerjee giving land? If onshore was not given, from wherever did ECL (Eastern Coalfields Limited) get onshore to extract coal?” she asked.
Ms. Banerjee besides ridiculed the claims by the Home Minister that the BJP would triumph a two-thirds bulk successful West Bengal successful the adjacent Assembly polls. “Earlier, they had said they would transverse 200 seats. Now they are trying SIR [special intensive revision],” the Chief Minister said.
The Chief Minister said astir 58 to 60 radical had died during the process of SIR and added that successful each territory a memorial would beryllium acceptable up for those who died during the ongoing SIR.
Trinamool Congress wide caput Abhishek Banerjee besides refuted the Home Minister’s charges connected infiltration and said helium [Mr. Shah] had to instrumentality work if infiltration occurred done the planetary border. Mr. Banerjee said the Home Minister should perceive to what his enactment MPs Jagannath Sarkar and Ananta Maharaj had to accidental connected infiltration.
Addressing a property league Mr. Shah had besides targeted Mr. Banerjee, who is nephew of the Chief Minister. “Mamata Banerjee’s authorities has promoted syndicate and chopped money, and present lone ‘Bhaipo’ [nephew] has the close to earn, and nary 1 else.” Mr. Shah had said.
