Tensions between West Bengal’s ruling TMC and opposition BJP erupted publicly in New Delhi on Wednesday, with state BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya and MP Sukanta Majumdar decrying CM Mamata Banerjee’s capital trip as a ‘media-orchestrated drama’ that fell flat. Their focus: rampant Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators corrupting voter lists, which they vow to excise entirely.
From the BJP Delhi hub, the leaders detailed Banerjee’s protest pageant across key sites during her February 1-4 stay, culminating in a Supreme Court showdown. Majumdar lampooned it as camera bait, with backstage prep yielding zero impact. Notably, a judge’s directive for verbal restraint to Banerjee marked an extraordinary judicial nudge.
Majumdar probed her SIR death allegations, questioning official notifications and certificates to the CEC. She had marshaled victim kin for audiences with poll officials and press, followed by courtroom self-pleading. Bhattacharya highlighted SIR’s nationwide traction minus Bengal’s uproar, recalling Banerjee’s past crusade for voter cards against left-wing list stuffing.
The 2,200-km Bangladesh border’s frailties—porous terrains and waters—can’t be fixed by forces alone but by willpower and community vigilance, he urged. Intimidation tales abounded: BLO coercion, a lethal strike on a BLO spouse, BJP form blockades.
Bhattacharya tallied 300+ BJP deaths since 2016, including 56 in 2021 polls’ 27-day bloodbath with sexual atrocities on women. With support waning, TMC’s SIR court gambit reeks of political persecution, they concluded, framing BJP as the sentinel against electoral sabotage in a high-stakes pre-election narrative.