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The TMC chief said she was heading to Banga Bhawan, the guest house of the West Bengal government, to take note of the “excesses” of Delhi Police on her people
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee speaks to the media, in New Delhi. (PTI)
Hours before she was scheduled to lead a Trinamool Congress (TMC) delegation to meet Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in Delhi over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged that Bengalis in the Capital were being “tortured”.
The TMC chief said she was heading to Banga Bhawan, the guest house of the West Bengal government, to take note of the “excesses” of Delhi Police on her people.
“I am going to Banga Bhawan to see our people and the atrocities of the Delhi Police,” she said. “When the Home Minister comes to Bengal, we give him the red carpet. But when we come to Delhi, you give us the black carpet. Please restrain yourself from the atrocities, from the torture of the Bengal people who have lost their lives. The people of Delhi don’t know what’s happening in Bengal. I just now got the information, and I didn’t even change my clothes.”
The comments come at a time of sharp political confrontation over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal, a process the Trinamool Congress claims is biased and motivated by partisan interests.
In a post on X, the official account of the All India Trinamool Congress said: “Today, led by Smt. @MamataOfficial and Shri @abhishekaitc, a 15-member delegation will meet the Chief Election Commissioner to formally place on record our grave concerns over the biased, arbitrary, discriminatory, and politically motivated conduct of SIR in Bengal.”
The party said the delegation would place “categorical demands” before the Commission and seek urgent corrective action. “Our repeated representations to @ECISVEEP have thus far been met with silence,” the post read.
February 02, 2026, 13:56 IST
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