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Union Minister J.P. Nadda connected Tuesday (March 10, 2026) took connected the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) successful West Bengal and accused it of not having immoderate respect for the judiciary, the Election Commission of India (ECI) oregon antiauthoritarian procedures, and alleged that the "rule of instrumentality has gone for a ride" successful the State.
Replying to a supplementary query during Question Hour successful the Rajya Sabha, Mr. Nadda said the authorities successful West Bengal was to blasted for the concern arising retired of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful the State.
The Leader of the House asserted that the Centre was pursuing the regularisation of law.
Mr. Nadda was responding to a query by TMC person Sukhendu Sekhar Ray related to the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers, which is nether Mr. Nadda.
While asking the supplementary, Mr. Ray charged that "coercive measures" person been taken successful West Bengal successful the sanction of SIR.
The TMC person demanded that the Centre nonstop a squad to West Bengal and find retired the crushed down Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's protestation connected Kolkata streets for the past 5 days.
Responding to his allegations, Mr. Nadda said, "He (Mr. Ray) has talked astir wherefore a woman Chief Minister is being punished and wherefore truthful overmuch of coercive steps person been taken".
"...It is being done due to the fact that the lone authorities near is West Bengal, wherever the rules and regulations and the regularisation of instrumentality person gone for a ride. They person nary respect for antiauthoritarian procedures. They person nary respect for governmental norms. They don't judge successful antiauthoritarian activities, and they adjacent endanger the judiciary," helium said.
Recently, Mr. Nadda said, a woman Chief Minister has disrespected a woman President of India.
"A woman main curate has disrespected the spot of the President of India, who happens to beryllium a woman and a Tribal. No respect for law, nary respect for judiciary, threatening everybody, and nary respect for Election Commission of India.”
"It is not the Government of India. It is her ain activity. And due to the fact that the Government of India works connected the regularisation of law, and due to the fact that of the regularisation of law, things are happening similar that," the elder BJP person said.
While asking the supplementary, TMC person Mr. Ray said the cardinal authorities talks astir cooperative federalism and truthful it should look into the information that the West Bengal Chief Minister is connected the streets for extortion of the rights of millions of Indians.
"The cardinal authorities indispensable nonstop a squad of representatives to find retired wherefore it has happened and wherefore the Chief Minister has been connected the streets... for the past 5 days. I person a petition to the government, that this information should beryllium recovered retired wherefore these coercive measures person been taken successful West Bengal unsocial successful the sanction of SIR," Mr. Ray added.
The Chief Minister is sitting connected dharna successful Kolkata against the SIR exercise.
According to authoritative information released connected February 28, 63.66 lakh names, astir 8.3% of the electorate, person been deleted since the SIR process began successful November past year, reducing the elector basal from astir 7.66 crore to conscionable implicit 7.04 crore successful West Bengal.
In addition, implicit 60.06 lakh electors person been placed nether the "under adjudication" category, meaning their eligibility volition beryllium determined done ineligible scrutiny successful the coming weeks, a process that could further reshape constituency-level electoral equations.
