Guess who Mamata’s largest enemy is? Well, it’s the BSF and she or he hates it

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is a annoyed and irritated particular person. With an endless mass exodus of TMC leaders already threatening the very foundations of her rule, India’s first line of defence – the Border Security Force (BSF) is making life all of the harder for her. As a matter of truth, within the current previous, Banerjee has made no secret of the truth that she needs BSF’s powers and jurisdiction curbed. Why would an Indian chief, nonetheless, need the BSF to be untoothed? BSF officers say that that is for the straightforward motive that the TMC’s grand nexus with criminals alongside the Indo-Bangladesh border will start flourishing.
That, successfully, would translate into a continuing income circulation for the get together and its leaders once they want it essentially the most – within the run-up to the meeting polls in April-May this 12 months. However, the BSF has had nearly sufficient of unfounded allegations being levelled towards it – with out proof no much less.
Pankaj Kumar Singh, Special Director General of BSF hit out on the TMC saying, “Let me know the instance and person involved, we’ll take action. Till now we haven’t been told anything. We are a professional force and don’t indulge in all this. Anyone involved will not be spared.”

With (West Bengal Assembly) elections looming forward, we’ve to be much more vigilant for any type of unlawful border crossing and individuals who may unfold bother throughout our peaceable election: Pankaj Kumar Singh, Special DG Border Security Force, in Kolkata pic.twitter.com/NxhwirclnI
— ANI (@ANI) January 29, 2021

This was in response to West Bengal Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Minister and TMC chief Firhad Hakim’s baseless allegations of the BSF intimidating folks in border areas of the state and telling them to vote for the BJP. The TMC, actually, has additionally approached the Election Commission with the identical grievance, albeit with none proof to again their claims.
Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora absolutely figuring out the bizarrity of such allegations, stated, “It is unfortunate that a party made averments about the BSF. I’ve asked for concrete instances. They’re (BSF) one of the finest forces in the country. There is no point in castigating any force, ad nauseam.”
But it isn’t just a few low rung TMC leaders who’re going round as city criers and levelling allegations towards the BSF. No lower than Mamata Banerjee has herself, on extra events than one, accused the BSF of “harassing local people” and “entering villages” within the areas alongside the worldwide border within the identify of looking down smugglers and criminals.
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The TMC supremo has additionally complained to the Union Home Ministry many instances previously concerning the BSF “overstepping its jurisdiction”. Earlier, she had complained to Union Home Minister Amit Shah concerning the BSF, once more, with none proof. But why is the TMC so determined to rein within the Border Security Force?
The BSF doesn’t permit infiltrators into India. Effectively, that hurts the TMC huge time, as its unlawful Bangladeshi vote financial institution witnesses no enlargement. And why does the ruling get together want extra of a Bangladeshi vote financial institution? For the straightforward motive that the Hindu and tribal vote within the state is being consolidated by the BJP. In face of the TMC’s shrinking voter base, their solely hope for survival is the entry of unlawful infiltrators into the voter information of India, which the BSF is serving as an obstacle to.
Finally, in line with these within the frontline drive, the TMC is in want of income – which is why it needs cross-border crime syndicates to function to their fullest capability, particularly earlier than elections. Again, the BSF isn’t permitting the identical, which is why the get together has begun hating the drive.
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