{"id":5155,"date":"2026-03-06T23:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=5155"},"modified":"2026-03-06T23:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:54:49","slug":"129184757-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=5155","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal: Didi begins sit-in, alleges EC &#8216;plot&#8217; to delete voters&#8217; names | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\">\n<div class=\"_s30J clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  VtlfQ \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-129184875,imgsize-77448,width-400,resizemode-4\/untitled-design-49.jpg\" alt=\"West Bengal: Didi begins sit-in, alleges EC 'plot' to delete voters' names\" title=\"Mamata with nephew Abhishek at the protest site in Kolkata on Friday \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cj2hz img_cptn\"><span title=\"Mamata with nephew Abhishek at the protest site in Kolkata on Friday \">Mamata with nephew Abhishek at the protest site in Kolkata on Friday <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>KOLKATA: Bengal CM <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mamata-banerjee\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Mamata Banerjee<\/a> began her sit-in Friday, alleging a \u201cBJP-EC conspiracy to disenfranchise Bengali voters\u201d through SIR of the electoral roll, and said the upcoming assembly polls would be a farce if genuine voters are not allowed to vote.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>To back her charge, the TMC chief had also assembled several people who claimed their names have been struck off the voter list after being marked as \u201cdead\u201d.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The protest was organised ahead of the visit of the full bench of the Election Commission, which is set to arrive in Kolkata Sunday night and stay in the state till Tuesday to review poll preparedness.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>The election dates are likely to be announced after the EC team returns to Delhi.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>\u201cI will expose the BJP-EC conspiracy to disenfranchise Bengali voters,\u201d the CM said from her dharna stage at the Esplanade. She said she would stay at the protest site overnight and declared that \u201cthe dharna will go on\u201d.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>\u201cMany people declared dead (on the electoral roll) are still alive. I will bring them to the stage,\u201d Banerjee said. \u201cLook at them. They are sitting here. BJP and its agents in EC have crossed all limits.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>TMC Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee gave a \u201cboycott BJP\u201d call. \u201cIf 60 lakh people can be kept under adjudication, why cannot PM\u2019s chair be kept under adjudication? The PM was elected with votes from these people,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>When the curtain lifted on the dharna site around 2pm, Banerjee was sitting on the stage surrounded by key faces of her party. Trinamool\u2019s RS nominees, ex-DGP Rajeev Kumar and senior advocate Menaka Guruswamy, also made their debut appearance.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>Meanwhile, BJP dismissed the stir as another \u201ctheatrics\u201d aimed at stalling the \u201ccleansing of electoral roll\u201d. \u201cThis dharna is definitely not for the people of Bengal. It is to ensure that infiltrators are retained in the electoral roll,\u201d Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattcharya said at the Parivartan Yatra in Howrah.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>Union minister Giriraj Singh, who took part in the Parivartan Yatra in WB, said TMC is working to \u201clegitimise citizenship of Muslim infiltrators from Bangladesh\u201d.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/west-bengal-didi-begins-sit-in-alleges-ec-plot-to-delete-voters-names\/articleshow\/129184757.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mamata with nephew Abhishek at the protest site in Kolkata on Friday KOLKATA: Bengal CM&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13902,13901,724,723,719,720,721,419,13904,722,13903],"class_list":["post-5155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bengali-voters-disenfranchisement","tag-bjp-ec-conspiracy","tag-breaking-news","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-mamata-banerjee","tag-sit-in-protest-in-kolkata","tag-today-news","tag-trinamool-congress-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}