Trinamool on Monday gained another inch at the fortress that Nirvachan Sadan turns into whenever the party visits it nowadays. They went in wearing black shawls in protest against what the Trinamool chief described as a hurried SIR that was excluding genuine voters at the behest of the BJP. I have never seen an Election Commission like this, one that is so arrogant. You are acting out of the fear of Modi.”Jagdeep Dhankhar was Bengal governor, and later Vice-President of India and Rajya Sabha Chairperson. In what seemed a jibe against chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Mamata said: “Will the public elect a government or will the EC?

Source: The Telegraph February 03, 2026 01:35 UTC