Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated at an election rally in Cooch Behar that the BJP will identify and remove every infiltrator from West Bengal once it comes to power. Referring to the Election Commission's deletion of names from electoral rolls, he said the BJP would remove them from Bengal's soil. Shah also warned TMC goons to stay indoors on polling day.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed an election rally in Tufanganj, Cooch Behar district, on Wednesday. He stated, "Till now, the EC has only removed the names of the infiltrators from the electoral rolls, but we will remove them from the soil of Bengal." Shah referred to the deletion of over 89 lakh names during the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Shah noted that barring West Bengal, all bordering states have BJP governments: Tripura, Assam set for another term, and Bihar where Samrat Choudhary took oath as the first BJP chief minister that day. He urged voters to form a BJP government in Bengal to seal the border, alleging the TMC refused to allot 600 acres of land for fencing.
Accusing TMC goons of disrupting peace in Cooch Behar, Shah warned them to stay indoors on April 23, the first phase polling day there, or face jail after May 5. He claimed they had killed hundreds of BJP workers and pledged to bring them to justice, along with jailing those who looted Bengal's treasury.
Shah accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of neglecting north Bengal, citing just Rs 1,200 crore allocation from a Rs 4 lakh crore budget. He promised priority development including an AIIMS, IIT, IIM sports university, tribal university, cancer hospital, Darjeeling as an adventure tourism hub, and four industrial townships, plus Uniform Civil Code and the 7th Pay Commission.
