4 min readKolkataApr 23, 2026 03:56 AM IST Launching a scathing attack on TMC chief Mamata Banerjee and the CPI(M), Union Home Minister Amit Shah claimed Wednesday that West Bengal’s capital had turned into a “city of slums” under their rule. Shah was addressing a rally in North Dumdum on the first day of his campaign for the Phase-2 of state Assembly elections, slated for April 29. Referring to Kolkata, Shah lamented: “Under Left and Didi’s rule, the entire city has become a city of slums. While many cities in the country have started to become slum free, Didi (Mamata) does not consider it necessary. She secures her vote bank by bringing in these infiltrators into the slums.” Urging the voters to “free” the state from what he called the “clutches of infiltrators” and bring back the “old pride of West Bengal”, the Home Minister said: “ For years in Sandeshkhali, an infiltrator carried out atrocities on women, but the CM kept quiet because he was an infiltrator and a TMC worker.” Referring to the …