Overview

• Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee used the TMCP foundation-day rally in Kolkata to allege the Election Commission is intimidating officials and that the BJP is using the Special Intensive Revision to ‘select’ voters.
• Mamata claimed the BJP has deployed over 500 survey teams to target names on the rolls and urged people not to share personal data, to keep Aadhaar ready, and to check polling stations to confirm registration.
• Abhishek warned that if any legitimate voter is deleted, TMC would mobilize 10 lakh Bengalis to march to Delhi and ‘gherao Rajpath’.
• The BJP rejected the allegations as baseless, with state leaders saying TMC opposes the removal of dead voters and illegal immigrants and is trying to mask electoral weakness.
• Mamata also attacked Union Home Minister Amit Shah over ‘dynasty politics’, pointing to his son Jay Shah’s role at the ICC, and repeated her ‘lollipop’ jibe at the poll panel.