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Kolkata, Nov 4 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party’s IT cell chief and party’s central observer for West Bengal Amit Malviya on Tuesday criticized Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee for taking out a rally against the special intensive vetting (SIR) exercise in the state, calling it a “Ghuspatiya Bachao Yatra”.
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The BJP leader’s comments come after Chief Minister Banerjee led a protest rally in Kolkata against the SIR of Bengal’s voter list, which began with door-to-door distribution of enumeration forms by BLOs on Tuesday.
Stepping up his attack against the Trinamool Congress, Malviya said, “The irony is that Mamata Banerjee herself once stood at the forefront of the conflict with the CPI-M, accusing them of manipulating the voter lists – filling them with the names of the dead, the displaced, illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and those who voted under cadre pressure. She was once the face of the fight for clean voter lists.”
The BJP leader claimed that in those days Mamata Banerjee had also protested against illegal infiltrators and demanded strict border security.
He said, “But today, she is blocking the Centre’s efforts to fence the open border – allowing uncontrolled illegal immigration that is changing the demography of Bengal forever.”
Malviya alleged that Chief Minister Banerjee wants to save her vote bank through Tuesday’s rally.
He said, “By launching this so-called protest, Mamata Banerjee is not protecting the interests of indigenous Bengali-speaking Indian Muslims – she is promoting illegal Urdu-speaking Bangladeshi infiltrators, who now dominate Bengal’s crime syndicates, women trafficking and have become her party’s captive vote bank.”
The BJP leader said Chief Minister Banerjee’s march on Tuesday resembled the “Long March” of Maulana Bhasani, who once demanded that India’s entire North East and West Bengal be handed over to East Pakistan – now Bangladesh.
He said, “Mamata Banerjee knows that once the voter list is cleaned, the fake votes that pushed her forward will disappear and the people of Bengal will hold her responsible. But Bengal is not hers to be destroyed.”
Meanwhile, Malviya also took a dig at CM Banerjee for allegedly making objectionable remarks while giving a speech at the end of his rally.
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“It is never a slip of the tongue; she does it deliberately and cleverly every time to strengthen her only vote bank,” the BJP leader said.
–IANS
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