Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, blamed the AIMIM and ISF for the gherao of judicial officers in Malda district and accused the Congress and the BJP of instigation.
She stated that the mastermind behind Wednesday's gherao of the judicial officers in Mothabari, Malda district, had been arrested by the state's CID. She emphasized that this police organization remains under her control, not the Election Commission.
"The BJP lent him (the accused) from the AIMIM and brought him here," she alleged, while addressing an election rally in Harirampur, Dakshin Dinajpur district.
"The ISF is with them; the Congress and BJP have also provided instigation," she claimed, stating that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested advocate Mofakkarul Islam from Bagdogra airport when he was trying to flee.
"They are the ones who engineered the violence in Mothabari, Malda," she said.
Alleging that outsiders were being brought in to create unrest in West Bengal, Banerjee said, "They don't even spare the judges."
Banerjee accused the AIMIM, whose chief Asaduddin Owaisi has publicly supported Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP), recently formed by former TMC MLA Humayun Kabir, of manipulating votes in the Bihar assembly elections to help the BJP win.
Kabir has vowed to contest all assembly seats in Muslim-majority Murshidabad district against both the TMC and the BJP.
Addressing the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) exercise, where voters' names are being deleted, Banerjee expressed her support for those affected and stated that she has fought for their right to be included in the electoral rolls.
She questioned why the assembly polls could not be conducted using the same electoral rolls used in the 2024 general elections.
"If the voter list contained names of infiltrators, Modi also won with their votes earlier, so he should resign first," she said.
"Money is being brought in using CRPF vehicles," she alleged, claiming that she knows where these vehicles are going.
"I have a record of these movements and will expose them at the appropriate time," she said.
Banerjee said that the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in West Bengal during the polls will lead to a reduction in the BJP's vote share.
Shah has stated that he would camp in West Bengal for 15 days during the two-phase assembly elections in the state on April 23 and 29.
"You may stay in West Bengal for 365 days, but that will not change anything," Banerjee said.
Accusing the BJP of creating a disturbance near her Kalighat residence on Thursday during the nomination rally of Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, led by Shah, she said, "It is futile to expect any courtesy from them."
Claiming that the names of 40,000 voters from Bhabanipur constituency, from where she is contesting to get reelected, have been deleted in the SIR exercise, she asserted that the TMC will win this election.
"I am your candidate in all the 294 constituencies in the state... Forget whose name is there as our party nominee," the TMC chief said.
She also accused the BJP of trying to impose a new version of religion on people.
"The BJP is trying to spread venom amongst people," she said, maintaining that she celebrates festivals of all religions.
Banerjee said that her MPs have informed her that the BJP is planning to bring in the Delimitation Bill in Parliament.
Asserting that the BJP will lose in the 2026 assembly polls, Banerjee said that the saffron party will be driven out of Delhi after defeat in West Bengal.
"They want to divide Bengal again," she said, claiming that a map had surfaced on social media showing a proposal to carve out a new state comprising some districts of Bihar and north Bengal.
The chief minister said that the Election Commission has appointed new DGP, police commissioners, district magistrates and other officers.
"I know they are all from West Bengal and will support the state," she said, maintaining that they should not listen to the BJP and instead work for the people.
Alleging that names of outsiders were being included in the voter list during the SIR exercise, Banerjee, at another election meeting in Raiganj, said that the BJP has submitted sacks full of forms to the EC for this purpose.
The TMC has been alleging that the BJP has submitted thousands of Form 6 to the EC for inclusion of names in the voter list.
Accusing the EC of adopting a pick and choose criteria for inclusion in the voter list, the TMC chief claimed that the names of minorities, women, workers, those belonging to the SC and ST categories were being deleted.
Banerjee accused the BJP of bringing in goons from outside and also indulging in "money laundering".
She alleged that the BJP had brought people into Bihar during the assembly elections for voting and claimed that the same plot was in the making in West Bengal.
"Central agencies are being misused for the purpose," she said.
Claiming that the lion's share of transfer of officers before assembly elections were in West Bengal out of the five states, she said, "Doesn't the BJP feel ashamed, I would have hung myself in shame."
Accusing the Congress of being hand-in-glove with the BJP in West Bengal, the TMC chief claimed that the grand old party's workers were not seen during the SIR exercise.
"I repeatedly appealed to them to go to the EC office together, but they did not respond," she said.
"You (Congress) have kept one foot in the BJP stable," she said, maintaining that to fight elections, one has to be with the people through all seasons and not just during the polls.
The TMC and the Congress are part of the Opposition INDIA grouping that was formed before the 2024 general elections to take on the BJP.