Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday mounted an all-out attack on the TMC government, accusing it of shielding infiltrators, fuelling social strife and deliberately weakening border security for electoral gains.Asserting that no other administration in the country was “as corrupt” as the TMC regime, Shah called on party workers to uproot the ruling dispensation and establish what he described as a “government of patriots and nationalists” in West Bengal. “The year 2026 is the year to say ‘tata, bye-bye’ to the TMC,” he said.
Projecting the upcoming assembly polls as more than a routine political contest, Shah, addressing BJP workers’ meetings in south and north Bengal, cast the battle as a referendum on national security, governance and Bengali asmita, as the BJP sharpened its pitch to dislodge the ruling party amid heightened focus on infiltration, electoral rolls revision and alleged scams.
Shah alleged that illegal migration through the India-Bangladesh border had spiralled under the TMC due to “vote-bank politics”.
“The way infiltration is taking place in West Bengal, it has become a security issue for the entire country. Even after court orders, the TMC government is not giving land to the BSF for border fencing because infiltrators are its vote bank,” he said at a workers’ meeting in Barrackpore.