Lashing out at Home Minister Amit Shah for his public call to topple the Bengal government by 2025 if the BJP won 35 seats in the general elections next year, chief minister Mamata Banerjee demanded Shah’s resignation on grounds that his comment was “extra Constitutional” and reeked of “conspiracy”.

“The home minister has every right to hold political meetings in the state. But he swore an oath to the Constitution when he assumed that chair. As a union minister, it’s his duty to protect the democracy and federal structure of this country. Instead, in all his arrogance, the home minister himself seemed to be hatching a conspiracy when he said that an elected government will fall before completing its term. Under what law can he do that? Is he drafting new laws? Is he replacing the Constitution? I think he has lost his right to remain in that chair and we are demanding his immediate resignation,” Mamata Banerjee said from state secretariat Nabanna on Monday, referring to Shah’s speech on 14 April in Birbhum.

Drawing attention to former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik’s recent allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in connection to the Pulwama attack, Banerjee also demanded a high level judicial inquiry of sitting Supreme Court judges “to unveil the truth”.

She further alleged that the Centre has singled out select areas of the state to “implement NRC and CAA in a roundabout way” in the name of identification of illegal Aadhar cards and stated that she would not execute that order in Bengal.

The Mamata Banerjee government is scheduled to complete its third term in 2026.

While addressing a public rally at Suri in Birbhum district, Shah set a target for the BJP to win 35 Lok Sabha seats from West Bengal and said the incumbent Mamata Banerjee government in the state won't survive beyond 2025 if the goal is achieved.

Referring to CBI's summons to her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal, Mamata Banerjee said, "Are they trying to send out a message that a chief minister can be summoned and questioned? If a CM can be questioned, why can't the home minister be questioned too?" she said.

Banerjee claimed that the BJP won't return to power in the next parliamentary polls, reiterating the appeal to the opposition leaders to unite against the saffron party ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Highlights of Mamata Banerjee's speech:

• Instead of protecting India, Home Minister Amit Shah conspiring to topple my govt: Mamata Banerjee, reports PTI
• Home Minister Amit Shah should resign for threatening my govt will fall before time: Mamata Banerjee
• If we unite, BJP will lose 2024 elections: Mamata Banerjee
• Whenever elections are due, BJP makes comments that polarise communities: Mamata Banerjee
• No action is being taken against wrongdoers in BJP: Mamata Banerjee
• Only judiciary can save the country: Mamata Banerjee
• TMC MLAs are being targeted in planned manner: Mamata Banerjee