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Modi is the biggest infiltrator, voting rights are in danger: Mamata

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has intensified her attack on the BJP-led central government, accusing it of trying to take away people's voting rights through the Special Revision of Voter Lists (SIR). She also termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the 'biggest intruder'. Attending an Eid event on Kolkata's Red Road, the TMC supremo said the SIR is part of an attempt to influence the electoral process in the state. "We will fight till the end for the protection of democracy and the rights of every citizen," she said.

She said the TMC has challenged the SIR process in courts from Kolkata to Delhi. Those who are trying to target Bengal and divide the people should 'go to hell'. The gathering raised slogans and applauded loudly. Citing Bengal's tradition of communal harmony, she said the state would not allow attempts to divide the society to succeed. "Bengal believes in unity. Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians all live together. We will not allow anyone to break this social fabric." Mamata said that when Modi goes abroad, he shakes hands with the leaders there and talks of friendship, but when he returns to India, suddenly he starts the Hindu-Muslim narrative and calls people intruders, but you and your government are the biggest intruders.
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