West Bengal’s political temperature soared as BJP state president Samik Bhattacharya and MP Sukanta Majumdar labeled Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Delhi visit from February 1-4 a resounding ‘flop show’ staged for cameras. Addressing reporters in the capital, they hammered home allegations of Bangladeshi infiltrators, Rohingyas, and bogus names bloating the state’s voter registry, pledging rigorous weeding out.
The Wednesday briefing at BJP’s Delhi office set the tone. Majumdar ridiculed Banerjee’s choreographed demonstrations—outside guest accommodations, Election Commission premises, and Supreme Court steps. ‘All pre-scripted for publicity, but it bombed,’ he sneered, pointing to a judge’s stern call for her to pipe down, a rarity for any CM.
Challenging her SIR violence narrative, Majumdar sought proof: How many DMs alerted the CEC? How many death certificates? Banerjee spotlighted grieving families to bureaucrats and media, then dove into self-advocacy in court amid lawyer clusters. Bhattacharya noted SIR’s peaceful rollout in 12 states, contrasting Bengal’s chaos, and invoked her 2005 flip-flop on voter IDs against fake inclusions by CPI(M).
Border woes loomed large: 2,200 km of leaky frontiers with Bangladesh demand more than patrols—political guts and public watchfulness, Bhattacharya argued. TMC’s playbook, they charged, includes BLO threats, a savage attack on a female BLO’s husband, and thwarting BJP’s deletion forms.
Horrific stats followed: 300 BJP workers slain post-2016, 56 in 2021’s election frenzy over 27 days, with women enduring rapes. Facing base erosion, TMC is dragging SIR to courts for suppression tactics, BJP asserted. This Delhi showdown signals BJP’s aggressive push to expose governance lapses and rally against perceived demographic manipulations.