Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused a “shameless” Election Commission of kowtowing to the BJP over the SIR, appeared to mock poll panel head Gyanesh Kumar as “Vanish Kumar”, questioned the draft rolls and vowed to decimate the saffron party in Bengal. “The BJP has created a BJP commission. She told the party to collect information about all the central government employees from Bengal deployed on poll panel duty. She attacked the commission for its decision to shift the office of the Bengal chief electoral officer to a central utility’s premises. Mamata reiterated allegations of corruption against chief electoral officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal, without citing specifics but referring to a past CBI probe against him.

Source: The Telegraph December 23, 2025 01:29 UTC