Ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has been strongly raising the issue of infiltration in the state in all his public meetings, blaming Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her party, Trinamool Congress (TMC) for it. Objecting to these allegations of Amit Shah, senior TMC leader and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee launched a scathing attack on the Union Home Minister on Friday (April 10, 2026). Additionally, countering Shah’s comments regarding infiltration from Bangladesh, he also mentioned the ousted former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina. He demanded that Union Home Minister Amit Shah clarify whether the ousted Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, should be called an infiltrator. Also, Abhishek Banerjee also questioned the role of the Home Ministry in the context of its failure to prevent the terrorist attacks in Pahalgam and New Delhi last year.
*What did Abhishek Banerjee say about Sheikh Hasina?
According to a report by news agency PTI, amid the ongoing political stir regarding the West Bengal Assembly elections, TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee held a press conference in Kolkata on Friday (April 10, 2026). During the conference, he demanded that Shah clarify whether Sheikh Hasina—who has been granted asylum by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government—should be called an infiltrator. Referring to Shah’s resolve to take strict action against infiltrators and uproot them even from remote corners, Abhishek alleged that the Union Home Minister was only repeating the same old things and spreading misinformation on the issue. He said, “If we have to discuss infiltration, then what is the status of the ousted Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, who has been living in India for the last one and a half years? Is she a Bangladeshi infiltrator?”
Amit Shah failed to provide security to people: Abhishek
Abhishek commented, “How did Amit Shah fail to stop the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in which 26 Indians lost their lives? How did terrorists manage to infiltrate into Delhi and kill 10 people?” Why did Shah fail to provide security to these people?