Virtually kicking off election campaigns in Malda, once a strong citadel of Congress, Mamata told the crowd, "I came here not to seek votes but stay with you during your anxiety and panic generated by the SIR. Are panicked with the exercise? Don’t panick."

"I am here with you as a security guard and won’t allow any pushback or detention camp. You contact the Trinamool Congress camp offices to get back you lost documents related to the SIR. Our party will set up ‘May I help you’ camps across the state on and from 12 December to help you all when SIR hearings begins later this month," she said.

Targeting the saffron party's ideological pitch, she added, "We don't need to learn Hindutva from the BJP. She also referred to the case of Sunali Khatun, the pregnant woman who was pushed into Bangladesh along with her eight-year-old son."

"The (Supreme) court asked the Centre to bring back Khatun. We fought the case in court," the CM said.

Questioning the conduct of central forces, she said, "Sunali was an Indian, then why did the BSF push the pregnant woman to Bangladesh? Is it just because she is a Bengali that she was branded Bangladeshi and pushed across the border?"

Reiterating her stand on citizenship issues, the TMC chief asserted: "As long as I am here, no Bengali will be sent to any detention camp or pushed back."

"As long as I am here, no one will be sent to detention camp," she said apparently keeping eyes on the elections next year in the state.