Purposeful propaganda: Mamata Banerjee denies claims of her accepting SIR form

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday denied receiving her enumeration form at home and said she would not submit it until every Bengali in the state had done so.

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief's clarification came a day after several media reports claimed that she had received the enumeration form for the Special Intensified Revision (SIR) of the voter list from the Booth Level Officer (BLO) of her booth at her Kalighat residence in Kolkata.

Reports stated that the BLO personally visited Banerjee's residence to serve the form as part of the ongoing SIR process, which began earlier this week.

"BLO in charge came to our neighbourhood yesterday to do their specific job. In the program, came to my Residence officer - a few residence voters know and sent out the form. Until every person in Bengal is filling the form, I myself have not filled any form and will not. Various media reports and newspapers have published that I came out of the residence and received an enumeration form from BLO with my own hands! This news is totally false, confusing and purposeful propaganda," Benerjee said in a post on Facebook.

This came days after Mamata Banerjee led a massive Kolkata rally protesting the ongoing revision of Bengal’s electoral rolls, which the Trinamool Congress has branded as "silent, invisible rigging" by the BJP-led Centre and the Election Commission.

"Many unorganised sector workers are thinking whether their names will be removed. Talking in Bangla does not mean Bangladeshi, just like speaking in Hindi or Punjabi does not mean Pakistani. Whoever is talking in Bangla is branded as Bangladeshi. These idiots who have not fought the freedom fight... where was BJP at that time? That is why they don’t know that India, Bangladesh and Pakistan were part of the same land before independence," Mamata Banerjee said during the rally.

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