Kolkata, March 31 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the BJP was trying to include illegal voters from Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh in the state's electoral rolls to favor the saffron party in the upcoming election.
Addressing an election rally in Paschim Medunipur's Chandrakona, Banerjee also reiterated her plea to the gathering to ignore the TMC candidates in the state's assembly segments and consider her as the candidate in all 294 seats.
"I was informed by Abhishek (Banerjee) yesterday that he had to rush to the EC office in Kolkata from the middle of his campaign schedule upon receiving information that about 30,000 forms were submitted in a single day to include fresh voters," the TMC supremo said.
"The BJP is trying to include illegal voters from Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh in the electoral rolls of Bengal. They are planning to transport out-of-state voters by train, as they did in Bihar," she alleged.
Claiming that the saffron party has "no respect" for Bengal and its people, the chief minister accused the BJP of colluding with the Election Commission and deleting the names of women and minorities from the state's electoral rolls under the guise of the SIR exercise.
"The BJP and EC are snatching the citizenship, constitutional, and democratic rights of the people. We will fight them every inch of the way," Banerjee said.
Maintaining that the BJP would impose a "ban on non-vegetarian food consumption" for Bengalis if it comes to power in the state, the CM said the TMC would thwart the Centre's attempts to implement the NRC in the state through backdoors and its plans of sending targeted citizens to detention camps.