Kolkata . Union Home Minister Amit Shah will on Saturday issue a ‘charge sheet’ or ‘white paper’ against the West Bengal government and the ruling Trinamool Congress. The Union Home Minister will address the media on Saturday at 12 noon and release the ‘White Paper’ at the same time. A member of the BJP state committee in West Bengal said the ‘white paper’ will highlight the failures that resulted in appeasement politics, maladministration, corruption, nepotism and allegedly organized violence in West Bengal during the three terms of the Trinamool Congress government led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Home Minister Shah reached Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport late on Friday night. His special flight was scheduled to land at Kolkata airport around 11.40 pm, but his flight reached the airport around 12.25 pm.
However, due to inclement weather due to heavy rain and strong winds, their special flight could not land at the airport and remained in the air for a long time.
Even before his arrival in the city, Shah had raised questions as to why West Bengal is the only state where elections are to be held and there has been so much controversy over the Special Intensive Amendment (SIR).
According to him, in two other poll-bound states like Kerala and Tamil Nadu, which like West Bengal are ruled by non-BJP parties, there has not been a single controversy over the vetting process.
Shah had said, “Neither did judicial officers have to be appointed there, as happened in West Bengal, nor did any political party protest against the revision process.”
Coincidentally, Shah’s event in Kolkata is taking place just a day after the second supplementary list of cases referred for judicial decision was published at 11.30 pm on Friday.
The list is available on the websites of the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal.
However, details of the second supplementary list including the total number of cases processed and how many names have been found eligible for exclusion are not available, as no official data in this regard was shared with the media by the ECI till Saturday morning.
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