‘Arrogant, liar’: Mamata attacks EC chief after SIR meet, asks why Bengal being targeted | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday strongly criticised Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, calling him “smug” and a “liar” after assembly him on the Election Fee headquarters in Delhi. The assembly got here amid the continuing Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, which Banerjee and her social gathering have described as biased and discriminatory.Popping out of the Election Fee workplace, Banerjee stated: “I’m very unhappy. I’ve been concerned in politics in Delhi for a really very long time. I used to be a minister 4 occasions and an MP 7 occasions. I’ve by no means seen such an Election Commissioner who’s so smug, who’s such a liar. I advised him that I respect your chair as a result of no chair is everlasting for anybody. Someday it’s a must to go… Why Bengal is being focused. Elections are a pageant in a democracy, however you deleted the names of 58 lakh folks and didn’t enable them to defend themselves.”Banerjee arrived in Delhi on Sunday with a 15-member Trinamool Congress delegation, together with social gathering MPs Abhishek Banerjee and Kalyan Banerjee, together with households affected by the SIR train. She had earlier criticised the heavy police deployment outdoors Banga Bhawan, the place she was scheduled to carry a press convention, and warned that such “threats can’t proceed.”Addressing the remedy of individuals from Bengal, she stated: “Please restrain your self from the atrocities, from the torture of the Bengal individuals who have misplaced their lives. When the house minister involves Bengal, we give him the crimson carpet. However after we come to Delhi, you give us the black carpet.”The Trinamool Congress delegation formally raised issues about what the social gathering described because the “biased, arbitrary, discriminatory, and politically motivated” conduct of the SIR course of. The nationwide train, presently underway in 12 states and union territories, is scheduled to conclude with the publication of the ultimate electoral rolls on February 7.