Priyank Kharge dares BL Santosh to topple Karnataka government in one month
Rural Development Minister Priyank Kharge has responded to BJP leader B.L. Santosh's claims about Congress leaders being in contact with him. Kharge issued a challenge, giving Santosh one month to attempt to topple the government and prove his allegations.
Taking to Twitter, Minister Kharge challenged Santosh, stating that he was not giving just one day but an entire month for him to demonstrate whether it's possible to destabilize or shake their government.
Kharge further challenged the BJP to select and present the Leader of the Legislature Party and the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly within a week. He questioned whether the BJP had the courage and strength to accept this challenge.
Critiquing the BJP's delay in appointing leaders, Kharge pointed out that 100 days had passed since their government was formed, during which they have initiated numerous people-centric projects and decisions. In contrast, the BJP has not been able to fill three vacant leadership positions, including Leader of the Opposition, State President, and Leader of the Legislative Council. He questioned whether the BJP's inability to appoint leaders indicated political bankruptcy, particularly considering their earlier criticism of the government's five guarantee programs.
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We will move court again to resist voter deletions: Mamata
Kolkata (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at the BJP and the Election Commission over voter deletions during the SIR exercise and said her party will move a court again to resist the removal of electors from the rolls.
Her comments came after nearly 91 lakh voters' names were deleted from the electoral rolls following the completion of the Special Intensive Revision in the state.
“You will not be able to defeat the TMC by deleting names. We will move a court again to resist the exclusion of names," Banerjee said while attacking her principal challenger BJP over the roll revision exercise.
Banerjee had in February argued in the Supreme Court as she sought an intervention in the SIR process.
The EC figures, which pushed the total deletion to over 90.83 lakh names from the original voter base of 7.66 crore in October 2025, showed that the proportion of removal of electors now remains at over 11.85 per cent.
Criticising the poll panel over the SIR process, she also said, "We will fight legally to get the names included on the list as per the Constitution. If people cannot cast their votes, what is the need to frame the tribunal? And then you are saying that the list has been frozen. What is this? We will challenge it and try to understand it."
Addressing a poll rally at Arambagh in Hooghly district, the TMC supremo accused the saffron party of trying to manipulate the electoral rolls and offering money to woo voters.
Banerjee also charged the Election Commission with intimidating people over the phone.
“It (EC) is working at the behest of the BJP. It is calling people over the telephone to threaten and intimidate them,” she claimed.
Later, while speaking at a rally in Balagarh in the same district, Banerjee warned that voting for the BJP would effectively mean "giving up fish, meat, and speaking in Bengali".
“People are not allowed to eat eggs, fish, or meat in the BJP-ruled states like Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra. The same will happen here if the BJP comes to power," Banerjee claimed.
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