Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday mounted a renewed attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and the Election Commission of India and warned them against manipulating the system by manipulating the voters’ lists.
“I will not allow anyone to take away your voting rights till I am there, I have heard that 500 teams have been sent to Bengal to conduct surveys and if they come at your doorsteps do not give your details as they will use that data to delete your name from the voters’ list,” Banerjee told in a meeting organised to celebrate the foundation day of Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parhishad the students’ wing of the Trinamool Congress.
Slamming the Election Commission of India for acting as a “lollipop ECI”, the Chief Minister said, “We give lollipops to the children as it suits them, you all are grown up people and if you start taking lollipops it does not look good. You should stop behaving at the behest of the BJP and brand the poor people as Bangladeshis and cut their names from electoral rolls.”
Assembly elections will be held in Bengal next year.
Though she would not name anyone she said, “I have seen many Prime Ministers and I will write a book on their performance and reveal everything.” However she attacked Shah for what she called “perpetrating a dynastic rule while blaming others.” She asked, “If Amit Shah is not perpetrating dynastic rule then what his son is doing as the president of the ICC which involves thousands of crores of rupees. How could he become ICC president?”