Suvendu Targets Mamata Over ‘Naxal-Jamaat’ Link as TMC-Left Join Hands

 

Ahead of the INDIA bloc meeting in Delhi, Suvendu Adhikari accused Mamata Banerjee of aligning with “Jamaat” and "Dimagi Naxals”, as TMC and CPI(M) coordinated over SIR and their demands against the Election Commission.

 

 

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari launched a sharp attack on former Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on September 29, as she travelled to Delhi for an INDIA bloc meeting.

 

Adhikari alleged that Banerjee was moving forward with “Jamaat in one hand and Dimagi Naxals in the other” and accused her of planning with CPI(M) leaders during her Delhi visit.

 

Adhikari also urged the Delhi Police and the Intelligence Bureau to keep a close watch on her activities, alleging the possibility of meetings with what he described as “anti-national forces”.

 

 

The controversy comes against the backdrop of an unusual political convergence between the TMC and CPI(M), which have been bitter rivals in West Bengal for decades.

 

Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary M.A. Baby reached out to opposition parties seeking wider coordination over the Election Commission and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Mamata Banerjee subsequently spoke with Baby and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi before the INDIA bloc meeting.

 

The proposed meeting focused on opposition strategy over SIR and allegations concerning the functioning of the Election Commission.

 

The emerging TMC-Left coordination raises questions how parties that have historically fought each other in Bengal can now come together against a common political target.

 

 

Banerjee, meanwhile, said her focus in Delhi would be the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the Election Commission’s IT team.

 

She has repeatedly criticised the SIR exercise and accused the poll machinery of failing voters. These claims are part of the opposition’s broader political challenge to the Election Commission and its handling of electoral rolls.

 

Adhikari, however, has accused Congress and its allies of adopting what he described as “double standards” over SIR, accepting the process when electoral outcomes favour them and questioning it when they do not.

 

 

The dispute therefore goes beyond Mamata’s Delhi visit. It reflects a wider confrontation between the BJP and opposition parties over electoral rolls, the Election Commission and the emerging INDIA bloc strategy.

 

Suvendu Adhikari’s “Jamaat and Dimagi Naxals” attack has intensified the political battle around Mamata Banerjee’s Delhi visit. The TMC’s coordination with the CPI(M), Congress and other opposition parties over SIR and the Election Commission is a documented development.

 

The Congress and the CPI(M) parties that spent decades in West Bengal locked in a bitter, often violent ideological warfare have now compromised their principles to share a common electoral platform?

 

 

While they attempt to mask this desperation under the pretext of ‘protecting democracy’ and challenging the Election Commission, their sudden coordination exposes a complete lack of political credibility and a shared anxiety over their fading relevance.