Mamata Banerjee vows to take SIR fight to Delhi soon, to meet poll panel chief
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A Trinamool delegation, headed by Mamata Banerjee, has received an appointment with Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on February 2.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee declared she would take her fight against the ongoing SIR exercise to Delhi sooner rather than later, after a last-minute rescheduling of her travel plans to the national capital on Wednesday.
Banerjee's statement came barely hours ahead of TMC sources claiming that a party delegation, headed by its supremo, has received an appointment with Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on February 2, during which the chief minister could take her anti-SIR outcry to the Nirvachan Sadan in Delhi.
The TMC supremo had, previously, communicated to her closest circles her intention to meet opposition leaders in Parliament, who would be in the capital for the upcoming budget session, and garner support for her anti-SIR campaigns, besides meeting her own party MPs to spell out their roles in what is likely to be the last session ahead of the assembly polls in Bengal.
"I was supposed to travel to Delhi from this meeting. But because there's been an unfortunate turn of events, I had to cancel my trip," she said from the public meeting in Singur, in apparent reference to the devastating warehouse fire in Anandapur in eastern fringes of Kolkata which claimed at least eight lives.
"But, if not today, I will surely go to Delhi tomorrow, or the day after. That's because you cannot expect to snatch people's rights and expect me to sit quietly. If required, I will stand in court. If permitted, I too will plead for the people, not as a lawyer but as a citizen. I have preserved all documents and evidence required for this case," she added.
Launching a blistering attack on the EC and BJP alike for "unspeakable harassment to people in the name of SIR", Banerjee alleged that the exercise is an attempt to implement "NRC through the backdoor".
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