Don’t trust Amit Shah, he will turn out to be a Mir Jafar: Mamata warns Modi

Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee launched an attack against Union home minister Amit Shah, saying that the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which is likely to be rolled out in the state anytime soon, was a game plan of Shah, and cautioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to trust him always.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee . (File Photo)

“Their (BJP) leader holds a meeting and then announces that names of a few lakh voters would be deleted from West Bengal. The state has been hit by a natural calamity. It is the rainy season. The festive season is still continuing. Amidst this, how can SIR be rolled out within 15 days ? How can everyone enrol their names? What do they think? Do they want a BJP’s commission?

Or a commission of democratic and civic rights? This is entirely a game plan of Shah. He is behaving like an acting-Prime Minister. The Prime Minister knows everything. I am sorry to say,” Banerjee said while speaking to reporters at the NSCBI airport in Kolkata.