Mamata Banerjee accuses BJP of enrolling fake voters in Delhi, Maharashtra polls; asks EC to be impartial

With eye on 2026 Assembly elections, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee held a TMC organisational meeting on February 27, 2025, and accused the BJP of enrolling fake voters from Haryana and Gujarat to influence the Assembly polls in Delhi and Maharashtra.

With eye on 2026 Assembly elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a Triamool Congress (TMC) organisational meeting on Thursday (February 27, 2025), and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of enrolling fake voters from Haryana and Gujarat to influence the Assembly polls in Delhi and Maharashtra.

Addressing the meeting in Kolkata, the party supremo alleged that free and fair elections are impossible unless the Election Commission remains impartial.

“What BJP has done in Delhi Assembly polls cannot be repeated in Bengal. We will identify fake electors, who have been enrolled with help of BJP,” claimed Ms. Banerjee at TMC meeting.

Ms. Banerjee also questioned the appointment of Gyanesh Kumar as the Chief Election Commissioner, alleging that the BJP was “trying to influence” the constitutional body.

“How the BJP is manipulating voters’ list with the blessings of Election Commission is very much clear,” she claimed.

“If I can go for 26 days hunger strike (during the anti-land acquisition movement in 2006), then we can start a movement against the Election Commission too. If needed, we can go for dharna before the Election Commission’s office for an indefinite period to press for demand to correct voter rolls and remove fake electors,” she said.

She alleged that the BJP had used “similar tactics in Delhi and Maharashtra by enrolling voters from Haryana and Gujarat to manipulate elections”.