Accusing Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar of threatening officials of West Bengal during a meeting in Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday (March 9, 2026) said he was behaving like a ‘”superman” and “super God”.
Ms. Banerjee, who has been sitting on a demonstration at Esplanade in Kolkata against the alleged exclusion of voters’ names during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, claimed that Mr. Kumar warned officials that action would be taken against then even after the Assembly polls in May.
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“Today I heard that officers of West Bengal were threatened. It is good to have courage, but not false bravado. Will you remain in your chair after May? First decide that before threatening officials and the people of West Bengal,” she said.
During the meeting with officials. Mr. Kumar reportedly said that any lapse in maintaining law and order ahead of the elections would not be tolerated, and strict action would follow if officials failed to discharge their responsibilities properly.
