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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee volition intensify her violative against the EC's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls with rallies successful Malda and Murshidabad this week, followed by a large mobilisation successful Cooch Behar adjacent week, TMC sources said.
This marks Ms. Banerjee's 2nd signifier of anti-SIR mobilisation aft her Bongaon rally last week successful the refugee-dominated Matua belt, wherever she alleged the revision thrust was being misused to intimidate borderland families.
The TMC is positioning her district-wise run arsenic a antagonistic to the BJP's "infiltrator-cleansing" narrative.
The TMC leaders said the determination to clasp consecutive rallies successful Malda, Murshidabad connected December 3, 4 and Cooch Behar connected December 9, successful 3 politically delicate borderline districts with sizeable minority, migrant and displaced populations, signals a deliberate effort to reclaim the communicative up of 2026, particularly arsenic the SIR workout fuels unease implicit scrutiny of documents, individuality and citizenship.
The Malda rally is scheduled astatine Gajole and Murshidabad's astatine Beharampore stadium.
The Cooch Behar rally, scheduled for December 9 astatine the historical Rash Mela Maidan, is being projected arsenic Banerjee's biggest mobilisation successful the northbound this winter.
District leaders expect a ample turnout from Dinhata, Sitai, Sitalkuchi and Mekhliganj, wherever the SIR has triggered fearfulness among mediocre agrarian households.
Announcing preparations, territory TMC president Abhijit De Bhowmik said an exigency gathering with artifact presidents volition beryllium held connected December 1, followed by a district-level preparatory league astatine Rabindra Bhavan connected December 2, with ministers, MPs, MLAs, councillors and panchayat functionaries finalising mobilisation plans for the main minister's visit.
Party insiders said Ms. Banerjee's rallies successful Malda and Murshidabad this week volition service arsenic narrative-setting platforms earlier the Cooch Behar amusement of strength.
Local units person already begun booth-level campaigns stressing that the SIR's "errors and excesses" are disproportionately affecting borderline residents, minorities and families with historically fluid cross-border linkages.
The BJP, however, has accused the TMC of shielding amerciable migrants and opposing a morganatic clean-up of electoral rolls for governmental gain.
With some parties leveraging the SIR to consolidate narratives up of the 2026 Assembly polls, Banerjee's Cooch Behar rally is expected to escalate Bengal's charged governmental confrontation implicit identity.
