Union Minister Amit Shah released a 15-year “chargesheet” against the Mamata Banerjee government on Saturday, criticising its governance and the law and order in the state ahead of the 2026 West Bengal assembly polls.
The minister said that the West Bengal CM used the “victim card” in politics while speaking at a conference in Kolkata.
He said that the people of Bengal now understood her tactics. "Mamata Banerjee has always played the politics of the victim card. At times, she gets her leg broken; at other times, she has her head bandaged; sometimes she falls ill; and then, she stands before the Election Commission feigning helplessness while hurling abuses at the institution. But I have come to tell her that the people of Bengal have now thoroughly understood this politics of the victim card," he said.
Shah said that during the SIR, judicial officers were deployed only in Bengal. He also said that the BJP would remove infiltrators from the voter list and expel them from the country.
"SIR is happening across the entire country, yet nowhere else did judicial officers have to be deployed--only in Bengal. What is the reason for this?... Mamata Banerjee should answer this to the people of Bengal. She is levelling allegations against SIR; however, today I wish to ask the people of Bengal: should those infiltrators who have been kept here be allowed to decide the future of Bengal? I want to make it clear on behalf of the BJP that we are resolved to identify and expel every single infiltrator from the country, not merely from the voter lists but from across the entire nation, and this is my party's agenda," he said.
He said that the BJP would fence the border and stop infiltration from the neighbouring country 45 days after it was voted into power.
He also criticised the CM for including 77 communities in the OBC, claiming that 75 of them were from Muslim communities. He questioned whether OBC status should be determined based on religion.
Shah said the charge sheet reflected the people and that the administration in Bengal was corrupted top to bottom, which is why there was no industries in the state. He said that TMC relied on the politics of protecting the infiltrators to stay in power for the last 15 years.
He also said that the BJP will return to power in Bengal with an absolute majority.
Shah said the situation in West Bengal had deteriorated in such a manner that people of West Bengal have started saying that the communists in the state were much better.
He also said that the BJP would ensure crimes against women which has become rampant would be punished regarless of political affiliations. “The safety of the women in West Bengal had been the worst during the current Trinamool Congress regime. All those involved in crimes against women are associates of Trinamool Congress. Such offenders should be punished regardless of their political affiliations. That is exactly what is happening in the BJP-ruled states. That will happen in West Bengal also after the BJP comes to power in West Bengal after the elections,” Shah said.
The union minister also complimented the leader of the opposition in West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari, over his role in carrying out the role against the TMC.