Delhi CM targets Trinamool over infiltration, crimes against women
The Hindu
Delhi CM Rekha Gupta criticizes Trinamool Congress for stalling safety measures and alleges failures in addressing women's security in West Bengal.
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Sunday (February 22, 2026) targeted the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal, alleging that it was stalling the Special Intensive Revision and allowing cross-border infiltration to perpetuate its rule in the State.
“She [Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee] wants to perpetuate this [cross border infiltration] and hence is trying to stall the SIR exercise, which aims at identifying and deporting infiltrators. Imagine a Chief Minister going to the apex court to argue against an exercise meant to ensure free and fair polls,” Ms. Gupta said.
The Delhi Chief Minister was in Kolkata to participate in the ‘Nari Sankalp Yatra’ organised by the BJP’s women’s wing. Addressing the gathering, Ms. Gupta targeted the Trinamool Congress government on several counts, including accusing it of appeasement politics and raising concerns over the safety and security of women in the State.
Senior BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, have in their public appearances in West Bengal also raised the issue of cross-border infiltration.
Ms. Gupta referred to the rape-murder of a woman doctor at R.G. Kar Hospital and the sexual assault of a woman medical student at Durgapur, and said that the West Bengal government had failed to respond adequately to such crimes.
Drawing a comparison between former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Ms. Gupta said, “People have already voted out ‘Bhaiya’ [Mr. Kejriwal]. Now it is your turn to bid farewell to ‘Didi’.”
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