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Alleging that her West Bengal counterpart, Mamata Banerjee, had approached the Supreme Court to stall the SIR workout to forestall the recognition of infiltrators, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta connected Sunday (February 22, 2026) claimed that the radical of the State person made up their minds to dislodge the Trinamool Congress from power.
Addressing participants astatine the ‘Nari Sankalp Yatra’ organised by the BJP’s women’s helping astatine Science City auditorium successful Kolkata, Ms. Gupta alleged that the "hands-off" and appeasement policies of the TMC Government had allowed thousands of infiltrators to participate the State successful caller years.
She claimed that this had enactment a strain connected basal rights specified arsenic entree to water, electricity, ration, education, livelihood and the close to ballot for genuine citizens.
"She wants to perpetuate this and hence is trying to stall the SIR exercise, which aims astatine identifying and deporting infiltrators. Imagine a Chief Minister going to the apex tribunal to reason against an workout meant to guarantee escaped and just polls," Ms. Gupta said.
The BJP person alleged that appeasement authorities had reached an "alarming level" nether the TMC regime. Raising concerns implicit women’s safety, she claimed that women successful the State were not unafraid contempt having a pistillate Chief Minister.
Referring to the rape-murder of a pistillate doc astatine RG Kar Hospital, Ms. Gupta alleged that the State Government had failed to respond adequately to specified crimes.
She besides referred to the alleged rape of a pistillate medic successful Durgapur and different instrumentality pupil connected a Kolkata assemblage campus, claiming that criminals had been emboldened to perpetrate brutalities against women.
Criticising the State Government's payment initiatives, she said schemes specified arsenic Kanyashree were built connected "false claims" and asserted that women needed information alternatively than assurances.
Accusing the State Government of blocking cardinal schemes, Ms. Gupta alleged that funds worthy "lakhs of crores of rupees" had not reached the mediocre owed to non-implementation of programmes specified arsenic Ayushman Bharat, PM Awas Yojana, and Jal Jeevan Mission by the State.
"You are lone funny successful renaming projects and taking credit," she said. Ms. Gupta besides alleged that the acquisition assemblage successful the State had been adversely affected, saying respective State-run schools had closed owed to a shortage of teachers and that the authorities was opposed to the National Education Policy.
Drawing a examination with BJP-ruled Delhi, Ms. Gupta said, "People person already voted retired 'Bhaia' [a notation to erstwhile Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal]. Now it is your crook to bid farewell to 'Didi'." Calling upon women to defy what she termed "strong-arm tactics", she urged them to asseverate their strength, invoking the imagery of Goddess Durga. "Bengal has the close to unrecorded with dignity, and women person the close to unrecorded with dignity," she added.
