KOLKATA: Union MoS Sukanta Majumdar turned the tables on Mamata Banerjee’s proposed March 6 agitation, branding her future as ‘Dharna Didi’ in a lively media briefing. Confident of BJP’s electoral triumph, he envisioned Mamata relegated to perpetual protests once his party installs a new chief minister.
‘Practicing for opposition leadership—BJP will rule Bengal,’ he jabbed, capturing the combative spirit gripping the state. The barbs revolve around voter list cleanups via SIR, with TMC crying foul over mass deletions.
Majumdar shredded death claims in SIR: ‘No death certificates, no EC complaints from DMs—what’s the proof?’ He scoffed at Congress’s election halt demands, pointing them to the courts. Colleague Samik Bhattacharya quipped that Bengal’s people see through Mamata’s dharna for Rohingyas, Bangladeshi entrants, and dead voters.
Context: Abhishek Banerjee accuses BJP of pre-planning a crore-plus voter purge via EC to thwart TMC’s victory. Mamata’s Kolkata sit-in protests this ‘manipulation,’ framing it as an assault on democracy. Yet BJP counters it’s routine upkeep exposing TMC’s vulnerabilities.
This showdown signals high election stakes, where every accusation amplifies the drama in India’s eastern hotspot.