Overview
- Mamata Banerjee, speaking at rallies on Thursday, warned the Centre could order a lockdown during the ongoing fuel and LPG crunch and said it would not halt her campaign.
- She accused the Election Commission and the BJP of deleting valid voters during the Special Intensive Revision, an electoral roll audit, citing 58 lakh removals and about 60 lakh names placed under adjudication for verification.
- Banerjee said 29–30 lakh people from the adjudication list have been restored after TMC pressure and announced party lawyers and local help desks to guide those still excluded through tribunal appeals.
- Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Friday video meeting on fuel supply, multiple reports said chief ministers from poll-bound states such as West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala were left off the invite list.
- She also highlighted long waits for LPG refills and higher prices that she said force households to scramble, while her rallies cast the contest as a moral fight and raised fears that roll cuts could feed future citizenship crackdowns.