The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday hit out at Union Home Minister Amit Shah, accusing him of spreading lies and making baseless claims of securing two-thirds majority in the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections.
Senior Trinamool Congress leader and state education minister Bratya Basu told reporters that Shah’s comments were based on hollow claims. Basu claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would not be able to cross even the 50 seat mark in the elections.
“Shah will keep coming and going like a tourist,” Basu said on the sidelines of an event. There will be no benefit from such tours.” Basu claimed, ”BJP will not even cross the 50 mark in the assembly elections and will have to face a shameful defeat.”
Addressing a press conference, Shah claimed that the BJP will form the next government in the state in 2026 with a “two-thirds majority”.
Shah alleged that the Mamata Banerjee government of West Bengal was promoting infiltration of Bangladeshis for electoral gains. He also said that if BJP comes to power in the state, illegal immigrants will be driven out. “We will not only identify the infiltrators but also drive them away,” he said.
Trinamool Congress spokesperson Jai Prakash Majumdar also rejected Shah’s claim that the BJP does not do politics of temple-based polarization.
Majumdar said, “Everyone knows that BJP campaigned through temple-mosque politics in both 2019 and 2024 elections. The people of Bengal will again reject this kind of politics.
