Amit Shah Thanks High Court For Border Fencing Order; Claims Only BJP Will Execute It
“Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s party has formed governments in 21 states across the country. But I have no satisfaction in them. Our leader, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and all of our workers will smile in satisfaction when Bengal becomes our 22nd state nationwide,” Mr Shah said.
Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah made clear on Saturday that BJP would “smile in satisfaction” only after winning West Bengal in the upcoming Assembly Election as the 22nd state across the country. He shared BJP’s long-cherished dream while addressing a party workers' convention at Barrackpore in North 24 Parganas.
“Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s party has formed governments in 21 states across the country. But I have no satisfaction in them. Our leader, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and all of our workers will smile in satisfaction when Bengal becomes our 22nd state nationwide,” Mr Shah said.
Calling 2026 “a year to bid adieu to the Trinamul Congress-rule in the state with Tata, Bye Bye,” the union home minister also sounded confident about BJP’s vote share crossing 50% rising from 38% in 2021 and his party's bright prospect to come to power here with a “heavy majority” this time.
The BJP star campaigner further vowed at the rally and later at another in Siliguri of North Bengal to ensure a detailed probe by a Supreme Court judge, after BJP forms government, into all the cases of corruption and scams that happened during the three consecutive terms of the TMC.
In a blistering attack chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Mr Shah then sarcastically alleged that she could not see the level of corruption as her eyes have developed cataracts– in the affection and pursuit of making her young MP nephew Abhishek Banerjee the next CM of the state– which the voters would remove in a surgery in the polls.
He further targeted the TMC supremo saying, “Mamataji was mocking me. When Lord Ram built Ram Setu, Ravan made a similar joke about him, wondering if anyone could defeat him this way.” Sharpening his salvo, the union home minister blamed the TMC chief and her party for insulting noted author Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s famous creation, Vande Mataram, by opposing the national song in the Parliament and outside.
Accusing the TMC of trying to protect Wow Momo owner Sagar Daryani even after 25 deaths while 27 others still missing in a devastating fire recently at his popular food chain’s warehouse in southern parts of Kolkata, Mr Shah sought Ms Banerjee to explain why the businessman has not been arrested till date and took a swipe at her for playing votebank politics. He argued that TMC workers were involved in the blaze at the warehouse, locked from outside.
In an oblique reference to the company owner's participation in Ms Banerjee's foreign tour, the union home minister wondered whether the CM would have remained equally inactive if the victims were “infiltrators” and demanded an impartial probe, otherwise, BJP would send the accused one after another behind bars after forming its government here.
Raising the infiltration issue to corner the ruling party from the national security aspect, Mr Shah complained that ingress has been continuing, posing a “huge threat” to the livelihood in the country and thanked the Calcutta High Court for ordering the state government to hand over land before March 31 this year in nine bordering districts to the Border Security Force for erect fencing.
He however alleged that Ms Banerjee would not comply with the HC order till BJP forms its government and fulfills the obligation within 45 days. “She will not do it. Even if she doesn't, a BJP CM will do it at the end of this April,” Mr Shah added.
Reaching out to the Matuas, a community of Hindu migrants in wake of the Election Commission's special intensive revision (SIR), the union home minister said, “Mamataji is scaring them in the name of SIR. Santanu (Thakur) ji repeatedly calls me up. They don't need to feel scared. Mamataji can't touch your votes. Let her oppose the SIR as much as she can. SIR is happening justly. We are supporting the EC. Infiltrators need to be removed from the voters' list. Those who will be left will be thrown out by a BJP CM.”
Speaking at Siliguri, Mr Shah warned against a threat to the strategic corridor, Chicken’s Neck, in wake of the unrest in Bangladesh. “Some people in New Delhi threatened to cut Chicken's Neck. How will they do it? Is it their ancestral property? This is Indian land. No one should dare to touch it.”
