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Samajwadi Party main Akhilesh Yadav connected Tuesday (January 27, 2026) hailed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arsenic the lone absorption person successful full India who is "effectively countering the BJP", and said that the saffron campy is present aiming for a "respectable defeat" successful the upcoming State elections.
Mr. Yadav, accompanied by his party's elder person Kiranmoy Nanda, met Ms. Banerjee astatine the State secretariat Nabanna amid a charged governmental ambiance successful the poll-bound State implicit the arguable SIR exercise, and lauded the TMC supremo for her "courage successful countering the BJP's onslaughts".
"If successful the full country, idiosyncratic is efficaciously countering the BJP, it is West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. And the BJP tin lone beryllium genuinely opposed by the mode she is doing it," the erstwhile Uttar Pradesh CM told reporters aft the meeting, which lasted for astir 40 minutes, with Ms. Banerjee lasting adjacent to him.
Mr. Yadav's connection assumes value successful the aftermath of respective determination parties, that are partners successful the anti-BJP nation-wide INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance)bloc, having successful the past alleged "big-brotherly attitude" against the platform's biggest constituent, the Congress.
Mr. Yadav's remark connected Tuesday (January 27, 2026), governmental observers said, was not lone an applause for Ms. Banerjee's governmental stance but besides an indirect barb against the Congress which has failed to station notable canvass victories against the saffron campy since the 2024 wide elections.
The erstwhile UP CM alleged that the BJP was successful cahoots with the Election Commission of India (ECI) successful conducting the SIR exercise which aimed astatine destroying the secular cloth of India.
"The BJP's combat present is simply a combat for defeat, they lone privation to clasp decision with a spot of respect," helium said.
Asserting that Ms. Banerjee would proceed to person people's enactment successful her combat against the BJP, Mr. Yadav extended his party's assistance to the TMC's endeavour successful Bengal.
"I judge that the secular forces, the brotherhood we stock that forms the individuality of this nation, volition travel retired connected top. The BJP is playing with secularism, and that excessively successful cahoots with the ECI which is simply a law body. We are blessed that didi defeated the ED and she volition look victorious against the BJP arsenic well. She has our afloat support," helium said.
Referring to the ECI's rotation revision workout successful Uttar Pradesh wherever astir 2.89 crore voters were deleted from the draught rolls, the SP person alleged that attempts are being to instrumentality the NRC successful the garb of SIR, and harass people.
"The SIR is devised to inflict maximum suffering connected radical up of the polls. It's a antithetic substance whether SIR was genuinely implemented successful Bihar. But the information is SIR was created for West Bengal," Mr. Yadav claimed.
"It is the work of the EC to guarantee that votes are accrued and promote much and much voters to workout their franchise. But for the archetypal time, we observe that the Commission and the BJP are trying to instrumentality NRC successful the garb of SIR and are harassing the communal radical with the explicit extremity of reducing votes," helium added.
Mr. Yadav, on with his woman and party's Lok Sabha MP Dimple Yadav, arrived successful Kolkata connected Monday (January 26, 2026) to be a household function, and referred to Ms. Banerjee precocious storming the Enforcement Directorate's raid venues of I-PAC office and its manager Pratik Jain's residence connected January 8 to deed retired astatine the BJP.
"Didi has defeated the ED. We are definite that she volition present decision the BJP again," helium said.
"The BJP has not yet been capable to hide the pains of losing the pen drive," Mr. Yadav added astatine Nabanna, successful a purported notation to the physics devices the Chief Minister had travel retired with from the agency's hunt cognition premises during the raids alleging that the bureau was trying to entree delicate TMC accusation connected to the upcoming polls.
He maintained that Ms. Banerjee saved the State from a "digital dacoity the bureau was trying to commit".
"Mamata Banerjee speaks of emotion and brotherhood portion BJP speaks of divisiveness. The BJP, done SIR, is not trying to heighten its votes; it is trying to slash the votes of its opponents. We expected a Constitutional assemblage similar the EC to stay neutral portion conducting this exercise. But our experiences successful States similar Bengal, Bihar and UP are telling america that this is conscionable a means to trim the fig of voters," Mr. Yadav said.
What the BJP forgets is that Bengal is not conscionable a governmental unit; it is much a taste portion from wherever messages of cosmopolitan humanism and unity were spread, helium said, adding that hatred mongers volition not win here.
Earlier successful the day, the SP chief, accompanied by his woman and SP's Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan, offered prayers astatine the Kalighat Temple.
