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Trinamool Congress main Mamata Banerjee connected Monday (April 6, 2026) alleged that the BJP had entered into a "tacit understanding" with the Congress and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, claiming that galore IAS and IPS officers from West Bengal had been sent to the confederate authorities arsenic canvass observers, hampering improvement enactment successful the State.
She claimed that though 4 States and an Union Territory are going to the polls simultaneously, the Election Commission of India (ECI) transferred astir 500 officers successful West Bengal successful examination to a fistful successful different poll-bound States.
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Ms. Banerjee said she would circuit the state to forge absorption unity against the saffron enactment aft the Assembly elections.
Addressing a canvass rally successful Nadia territory successful enactment of enactment candidates, the CM claimed that respective officers of the West Bengal cadre had been sent to Tamil Nadu arsenic observers by the ECI pursuing the announcement of Assembly polls.
"You (BJP) indispensable beryllium having immoderate tacit knowing with the Congress and Stalin," she alleged.
"They (BJP) are placing their ain officers successful salient positions successful West Bengal to guarantee their escaped movement," she claimed.
The main contention successful Tamil Nadu is betwixt the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) — which includes Congress, DMDK and VCK — and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by the AIADMK with BJP, PMK, AMMK and others arsenic allies.
Asserting that the TMC volition people the BJP successful Delhi aft winning the Assembly polls successful Bengal, Ms. Banerjee said they volition instrumentality on each parties for that intent if needed.
"I volition circuit the state to stitch unneurotic absorption unity," she said.
The TMC supremo claimed that the elector database connected which the BJP came to powerfulness successful 2024 was discarded 3 months earlier the Assembly elections successful West Bengal.
"You (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) should resign, the location minister, the full authorities should resign," Ms. Banerjee asserted.
"Keep successful caput that if you don't, radical volition marque you bash so," she said.
Ms. Banerjee alleged that if the BJP comes to powerfulness successful Bengal, it volition enactment restrictions connected fish, nutrient and ovum consumption.
"Due to the SIR exercise, 250 radical died successful Bengal, and you (BJP) indispensable instrumentality work for that. I don't blasted the Election Commission, they are lone parrots similar the CBI and the ED," she said.
The Chief Minister said the TMC does not enactment the gherao of judicial officers successful Malda's Mothabari, and alleged that the BJP had benefited from the part of votes successful Bihar with the assistance of AIMIM.
"We bash not enactment immoderate attack, but the serviceman who got the mastermind arrested has been sent to Tamil Nadu," she alleged, referring to IPS serviceman Supratim Sarkar being deputed arsenic an observer.
Ms. Banerjee besides questioned the citizenship process, asking wherefore those who had been successful India for a abbreviated clip were granted citizenship portion long-time residents faced deletion from elector lists.
"We privation to spot a agreed India," she said.
Ms. Banerjee alleged that main electoral serviceman Manoj Agarwal went to Nandigram connected Sunday accompanied by BJP supporters.
Urging voters to respond done the ballot, Ms. Banerjee claimed that astir 24 lakh names were restored successful the electoral rolls owed to her efforts.
Maintaining that her authorities would not let detention camps successful the state, she said, "We volition scuttle immoderate determination to propulsion retired radical from Bengal done NRC." Ms. Banerjee said she would record her information from the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency connected April 8.
Addressing a TMC rally astatine Samudragarh successful Purba Bardhaman district, the Chief Minister said this predetermination is antithetic from the erstwhile ones and alleged that the BJP engineered the deletion of a ample fig of names from the elector database done the SIR exercise.
"BJP leaders person utilized AI to delete the names of voters en masse; this volition beryllium avenged," she warned.
Claiming that the BJP has stopped cardinal funds for assorted payment projects successful the State, Ms. Banerjee said, "Such moves volition not halt improvement enactment successful Bengal."
"I impulse the radical of Bengal to avenge the SIR-related harassment by defeating the BJP," Ms. Banerjee said.
Speaking astatine a canvass rally astatine Santipur successful Nadia district, the TMC main said the enactment celebrates each festivals, whether it beryllium Durga Puja, Kali Puja, Eid oregon Christmas.
"But the BJP is trying to make part among the radical successful the sanction of religion. Teach them a lesson," Ms. Banerjee said.
Mocking the BJP implicit its committedness to springiness ₹3,000 to each pistillate successful the authorities replacing Lakshmir Bhandar strategy wherever ₹1,500 is fixed to wide caste and ₹1,700 to women from the scheduled caste and tribes, Ms. Banerjee said, "You volition alternatively springiness bulldozer." The Chief Minister said her authorities introduced 105 payment schemes for the people.
Asserting that this predetermination is simply a "dharmayudh" (crusade), she said successful this case, dharma is that of humanity, that of surviving with all.
"Your (BJP) dharma is of dividing people, but my dharma is of unity, yours is of taking distant voting rights portion excavation is to reconstruct those," the TMC main said.
