Mamata Calls Shah 'Dangerous', Alleges SIR Being Used to Delete Names of 1.5 Crore Voters

PTI, KRISHNANAGAR (WB), DECEMBER 11, 2025: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday intensified her attack on Union Home Minister Amit Shah, calling him "dangerous" and accusing the Centre and Election Commission (EC) of using the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to unlawfully delete the names of lakhs of eligible Bengal voters ahead of the 2026 assembly polls.

Addressing a rally in Nadiad district's Krishnanagar, Banerjee alleged that Shah was directly guiding attempts to remove as many as "1.5 crore names" from the voters' list and warned that she would sit on an indefinite dharna if even a single eligible voter was excluded during the SIR exercise.

"The country's home minister is dangerous. His two eyes send a message of disaster - in one eye you see Duryodhan, and in the other, Dushasan," Banerjee said, dramatically intensifying the rhetoric she has been using over the past week in her public meetings.

She also accused the BJP of attempting to weaponise the SIR exercise barely two months before the polls. "They are so hungry for votes that they have launched the SIR now. If any eligible person's name is struck off, I will sit on a dharna till it's restored. There will be no detention camps in West Bengal," she said.

Banerjee claimed that district magistrates were being pressured to remove 1.5 crore names during the revision. On Wednesday, Shah had warned in Parliament that those "standing with infiltrators" would "vanish from Bengal", prompting Banerjee to issue a sharp counter on Thursday. "There will be no NRC and no detention camps in West Bengal. We will not allow anyone to be driven out. And if someone is pushed out, we know how to bring them back," she asserted.

Attacking the Election Commission, Banerjee alleged that officers aligned with the BJP were being sent from Delhi to supervise SIR hearings and influence district administrations.