Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday termed the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee as the only leader in the country who was actively launching an attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and accused the ruling party and the Election Commission of India (ECI) of selective application of special rules in West Bengal.
Talking to reporters after his meeting with Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata, Yadav remarked that there is no one really opposed to the BJP in the national scene but it was the West Bengal chief minister. He had also contributed that the way Banerjee had done it was the way BJP needed to be challenged politically.
Yadav also alleged that the ECI and the BJP in this case were trying to achieve the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state in the name of a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls. In his opinion, the voter names were being taken off the books, rather than promote greater democratic involvement. Yadav made the statements when on a personal visit to Kolkata.
The SP leader said that the secular forces throughout the country would unite to fight the forthcoming elections that would be held in the West Bengal assembly. He claimed that Bengal has a different political culture in the leadership of Banerjee which is based on harmony and not divisiveness as most of the politicians. Yadav also forecasted that Banerjee would resume as chief minister and that the BJP was going to lose the state.
In allusion to the recent scandals, Yadav complimented what Banerjee did when an Enforcement Directorate raided his party’s election strategist on January 8 at his premises. He indicated that it was her intervention that stopped what he described as the theft of data and praised her boldness. Yadav also claimed that the central agencies like the ED, CBI and the income tax department were in the hands of the BJP to serve political interests.
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