The poll battle in West Bengal is heating up with chief minister Mamata Banerjee accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party of instigating riots in the state and home minister Amit Shah slamming the Trinamool Congress for making special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls 'such a massive issue'.
Leaders of both the parties exchanged barbs on Saturday, March 28, in run up to the state assembly polls in West Bengal slated to place in April.
Amit Shah, while speaking in Kolkata on Saturday, said that the exercise of SIR was conducted across the country but nowhere else did judicial officers have to be deployed except in West Bengal.
Addressing the people of Bengal, Shah asked 'whether infiltrators who have been kept here be allowed to decide the future of Bengal?'
He also claimed that security of Siliguri corridor was threatened due to TMC's 'vote bank politics' and said that the country's security is linked with the elections in Bengal 'in a way' and that it is the only state 'from where infiltrators are entering the country and creating disturbances'.
Banerjee also launched a scathing attack at the BJP and claimed that all her rights and powers as chief minister have been snatched away.
She also blamed the BJP for the recent violence in Raghunathgarh in Murshidabad district on Ram Navami and said, 'do not blame me. All my rights have been snatched away. All officers have been transferred. BJP's people have been sent here. But they do not know that it is we who will win.'
The state assembly polls will be held in West Bengal in two phases on April 23 and 29 and the counting will be held on 4 May.
