Addressing a rally at Jalangi in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, the TMC national general secretary alleged that the Congress has a nexus with the BJP and the Left, and voting for its candidates would split non-BJP votes and benefit the saffron party.
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“Did they (Congress) help you (electorate) when your name was missing from the voter list due to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls? No party other than the TMC fought the Election Commission and the BJP valiantly to ensure your names figure in the electoral rolls,” he said.
“Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee unmasked the EC and BJP’s role in SIR and ensured the publication of supplementary lists and setting up of tribunals. Only we opposed this diabolical game plan to deprive citizens of their voting rights from the beginning. Congress and other parties did nothing. We will always be on your (people’s) side,” he said.
He said those whose names were deleted from the final electoral rolls should appeal to tribunals and assured that the TMC would extend all help to them.
The Congress is contesting all major seats in the district, including Baharampur, to challenge the TMC, which has 20 MLAs, including suspended legislator and founder of Janata Unnayan Party Humayun Kabir.Also Read: West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026: Infighting and graft allegations roil TMC ahead of Birbhum’s Bolpur, Rampurhat contests
Banerjee also accused the BJP and other “vested interests” of trying to stoke communal tension in Murshidabad in the run-up to the polls.
Accusing the opposition of launching false campaigns against the TMC, he said, “All kinds of misinformation are being spread and peddled. Wait for 28 days till May 4 when people of Murshidabad and the rest of Bengal will give a befitting reply to these anti-Bengal, anti-people elements.”
“We will democratically twist and break the spine, ankle of forces like the BJP in the April 23 and April 29 polls,” he said.
“People of Bengal will give a befitting lesson to those who deprived us of homes, drinking water and wages under the 100 days’ work scheme. Their dream to capture Rammohan, Vidyasagar, Tagore, Vivekananda’s Bengal through EC will not succeed,” he said.
Elections to the 294-member Assembly will be held in two phases – on April 23 and April 29. Votes will be counted on May 4.
