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Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee connected Monday (December 1, 2025) deed backmost astatine Prime Minister Narendra Modi's complaint that the Opposition was turning the Parliament into a signifier for "drama", asserting that demanding accountability connected the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) workout and different governance issues cannot beryllium dismissed arsenic theatrics.
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Mr. Banerjee's remarks came hours aft PM Modi, speaking to reporters extracurricular Parliament up of the wintertime session, said the House was "not a spot for play but for delivery", describing the Opposition's behaviour arsenic a "warm-up arena" for elections and adjacent offering to springiness them "tips to bring positivity successful politics".
Responding sharply, Mr. Banerjee said the Opposition had lone sought a ceremonial statement connected the SIR exercise, which helium claimed had already led to "around 40 deaths, including booth level officers (BLOs)", due to the fact that of alleged procedural lapses.
"What the Opposition is asking for is simply a statement connected SIR. Is that drama? If raising people's dependable is drama, past the radical volition springiness them a reply successful the adjacent election," Mr. Banerjee said.
Blaming the Election Commission (EC) for what helium called an "unplanned and glitch-ridden" revision process, Mr. Banerjee said BLOs were neither trained nor equipped to grip the workload.
"The EC didn't bid BLOs. It didn't hole the glitches. The elector rotation isn't updated. 40 radical person died owed to an unplanned SIR. Where is accountability from the Government?" Mr. Banerjee asked.
Mr. Banerjee accused the BJP of selective outrage and evading work crossed sectors.
"People stood successful serpentine queues during demonetisation 10 years back. The achromatic wealth travel has increased. Where is the accountability? Blasts are happening, and terrorists are entering the country. Again, wherever is the accountability?" Mr. Banerjee said.
Mr. Banerjee insisted that the Opposition was functioning "within the ineligible framework" by questioning the authorities and the canvass panel.
"Just due to the fact that they person won a fewer States doesn't mean they are not answerable to the people. The aforesaid radical volition region them from power," Mr. Banerjee said.
Referring to alleged lapses during the Pahalgam panic attack, Mr. Banerjee alleged that the authorities could not selectively determine what constitutes morganatic scrutiny.
"We are raising questions connected Pahalgam, connected the 40 deaths linked to SIR, and the BJP thinks this is drama? We are not against SIR but against the method and the mode it is being executed," Mr. Banerjee said.
Reiterating a long-running charge, Mr. Banerjee alleged that the centre had withheld Bengal's fiscal entitlements. "They person blocked ₹2 lakh crore of Bengal," helium claimed.
Stressing that accountability "cannot beryllium optional successful a democracy", Mr. Banerjee said the Opposition would proceed pressing for answers wrong and extracurricular the Parliament.
