Union Home Minister Amit Shah will release a document detailing allegations of corruption and misgovernance during Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s 15-year tenure in West Bengal. The document, titled Abhiyognma or “charge sheet”, will be unveiled at a hotel in New Town, Kolkata, on Saturday afternoon.
A senior BJP leader told PTI that the charge sheet will highlight the alleged “failures” of the TMC government across 14 sectors, including administrative corruption, collapse of law and order, safety concerns for women, the prevalence of syndicate raj, and crises in health and education.
The BJP is scheduled to release its election manifesto in the first week of April, which is expected to further emphasise the TMC government’s alleged shortcomings while presenting the party’s proposed alternatives.
Shah has been at the forefront of the BJP’s election campaign in West Bengal, where the party aims to wrest power from the TMC. Over the past two months, he has made several visits to the state, attending organisational meetings, public rallies, and outreach programs—including the Poriborton Yatra—to strengthen the BJP’s grassroots network and fine-tune poll strategies.
West Bengal’s 294-member assembly will go to the polls in two phases on April 23 and April 29 with vote counting scheduled for May 4.
Shah arrived in Kolkata early Saturday after a nearly two-hour delay caused by a severe thunderstorm that lashed the city and surrounding areas overnight.
According to airport sources, the special aircraft carrying the Home Minister from Delhi was scheduled to land at 11:46 pm but had to circle over the airspace of Nadia and North 24 Parganas districts due to lightning and heavy rain.
The plane finally landed at 1:46 am, and Shah departed for a city hotel in a convoy at 2 am.
