Mamata Banerjee’s provocative statement: Instigated women on the pretext of SIR – “You have kitchen tools”

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday (December 11) gave a very controversial statement regarding Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Addressing a rally in Krishnanagar, she told women to be ready with their kitchen tools in case their names were removed from the voter list. The statement immediately caused a political stir.

According to NDTV, Banerjee said from the stage, “Will you take away the rights of mothers and sisters? Will you bring police from Delhi to scare them in the elections? Mothers and sisters, if your names are removed – don’t you have the tools? The tools in the kitchen – you have the power. If your names are removed, will you let it go like this?”

He has told his workers that during elections, women will fight at the forefront, while men will stand behind them.

Mamata Banerjee alleged that the BJP may misuse the SIR process. She said, “I want to see whether the women of Bengal are powerful or the BJP. As soon as the elections come, the BJP divides the public by using money and outsiders. They want to conduct the elections on the list prepared by the BJP’s IT cell.”

He called it tampering with democracy. Citing Bengal’s historical freedom struggle, Banerjee said that the people here have sacrificed for the country and they cannot be forced to prove their citizenship again and again. The Chief Minister’s statement regarding kitchen tools has sparked a new debate in the state’s politics. The opposition says that Mamata Banerjee is inciting women to violence, while TMC is calling it an “appeal to protect democratic rights”.

Experts believe that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wants to save her vote bank and influence the voter list by intimidating the ordinary workers of the Election Commission, so that the local BLOs do what the TMC leaders want.

The question is whether the effort of any political party to protect the infiltrators from Bangladesh in the voter list instead of finding them through thorough investigation and expelling them from the country, should it be considered a challenge to national security or not?

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