West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday launched one of her most blistering political offensives in recent months, accusing the BJP of weaponising the SIR (Special Identity Register) issue and polarising voters on religious lines.

Addressing a massive gathering in Baharampur, Murshidabad, she declared emphatically: “Bengali will never allow detention camps. As long as your names remain on the voter list, mine will remain too.”

The rally came a day after her party, the Trinamool Congress, suspended MLA Humayun Kabir—an episode that has injected fresh tension into Bengal’s political arena. Yet, Mamata kept her focus squarely on what she called the BJP’s “calculated communal script.”

“Murshidabad doesn’t want unrest”

“Murshidabad’s people do not like unrest,” Mamata said fr

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