Union Home Minister Amit Shah strongly defended the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) of electoral rolls, promising to expel infiltrators, following Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s demand to halt the exercise.
Amit Shah Mamata Banerjee Infiltrators SIR Debate
A fierce political confrontation has erupted between Union Home Minister Amit Shah and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, bringing the contentious issue of citizenship and infiltration debate back to the forefront of national politics. The war of words reached a flashpoint when Shah, in a decisive counter-attack, vowed to “throw out every infiltrator,” just days after Banerjee urgently requested the Election Commission of India (ECI) to halt the process in her state.
Shah’s hardline rhetoric, often delivered in the context of border security and national security, underscores the BJP’s core ideological commitment to curbing illegal immigration, particularly across the porous Bangladesh border. He explicitly linked the SIR—an exercise the ECI claims is standard practice to sanitize voter lists—to the larger goal of identifying and expelling “infiltrators.” Speaking at a recent conclave, Shah accused the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government of facilitating a “red carpet welcome” to illegal immigrants for “votebank” politics, claiming that the Bengal administration’s actions were actively compromising India’s democracy.
