West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, while targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party over SIR, said that if an attempt is made to attack her, she will shake the foundation of BJP in the entire country. Politics has heated up due to his statement. UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya said that she will not be able to save Bengal now.

Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya hit back at Mamata Banerjee’s statement and claimed that now only Bharatiya Janata Party will form the government in West Bengal, she is now scared. Maurya said- “Mamata Banerjee will no longer be able to save West Bengal. Lotus is going to bloom there too. This is the result of her nervousness.”

Mamta Banerjee had given this statement

In fact, in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is continuously expressing her displeasure over the process of SIR. His allegation is that BJP is fixing the voter list through this. He also raised questions on the role of the Election Commission in this entire process and said that people are being intimidated in the name of SIR.

On Tuesday, Mamata Banerjee held a rally in Bangaon in protest against SIR, where she targeted BJP and said that BJP cannot defeat them in their own game. If BJP tries to attack her in Bengal, it will shake the foundation of BJP all over India. BJP has also become aggressive regarding his statement.

Let us tell you that BJP is very excited after achieving a landslide victory in the Bihar Assembly elections. The enthusiasm of party leaders is high. BJP says that now it is ready to wave saffron in West Bengal also. BJP’s next target is to win the West Bengal elections, preparations for which the party has already started.

Union Minister Chirag Paswan has hit back at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s statement on the army. LJPR chief said that nothing can be more shameful and sad than this. The thinking of the opposition leaders of the country is such that they are dividing our army on caste lines. This statement is extremely shameful. If the country’s army is protecting the people then it does not do so on the basis of caste.

Chirag Paswan said, ‘Congress has ruled the country for the longest period, Indira Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajiv Gandhi were their families. If division in the army had to be done in the name of caste, it would have been done. The politics of polarization for votes is different but the army should never be brought into politics. The statement of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has also hurt the sentiments of the country’s soldiers who were martyred on the border.

Rajnath Singh also surrounded Rahul Gandhi

The country’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has also cornered Rahul Gandhi on this statement. He said that there is only one religion for soldiers, military religion. He said, ‘There should be reservation. We support reservation and have given it to the poor, but when it comes to the army our soldiers follow only one religion, the military religion. There is no other religion apart from this. Do not bring politics into the army. Whenever the country has faced crisis, our soldiers have made India proud with their courage and bravery.

What did Rahul Gandhi say?

Rahul Gandhi had said in the Aurangabad rally on Tuesday (November 04, 2025), ’90 percent of the country’s population is from Dalit, Mahadalit, backward, extremely backward or minority communities. If you take out the list of 500 biggest companies, you will not find any person from backward or Dalit communities there. They all come from the top 10 percent. All jobs go to them. The same 10 percent people have control over the army.

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Amidst the ongoing election activity in Bihar, the Election Commission will start the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in 12 states of the country from Tuesday (4 November 2025). The work of verification of Voter ID will start in many states including West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh. This time, like Bihar, only Aadhar card is not valid in the SIR process. Under this, the work of distributing enumeration forms from door to door of voters will be started and these forms will be submitted on December 4, 2025.

Election Commission will visit Bengal

A team of the Election Commission may visit West Bengal from 5 to 8 November to review the SIR. According to the report of news agency PTI, the team led by Election Commission Principal Secretary SB Joshi and Deputy Secretary Abhinav Aggarwal can inspect Cooch Behar, Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri districts of Bengal. Will assess how the BLO and Returning Officer RO are performing their duties.

During the second phase, SIR is to be conducted in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Assembly elections are going to be held in four of these states, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala and West Bengal next year. During this period, the concerned BLO will visit people’s homes three times. The final publication of the voter list will be done next February 2025.

These 13 documents are necessary for SIR

For SIR, documents like birth certificate, 10th or any other examination certificate, passport, government land and house papers, caste certificate, domicile certificate, government job identity card or pension payment order, copy of family register, Commission’s guidelines related to Aadhar card, NRC entry, any identity card issued before July 1, 1987, land or house allotment certificate issued by the government will be valid. There are 51 crore voters in the 12 states and union territories where SIRs are to be held.

Draft voter list will be released on December 9

The Election Commission will release the draft voter list on 9 December and the final voter list will be published on 7 February 2025. Earlier SIR was done in 2002-04. The Commission believes that SIR will ensure that no eligible voter is left out and no ineligible voter’s name remains in the voter list. The primary objective of SIR is to delist illegal foreign immigrants by checking their place of birth.