West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday called the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ‘inhumane’ and announced that she would move the court of justice against it.
In South 24 Parganas, addressing a rally, the TMC supremo alleged that the SIR exercise had triggered fear, harassment and administrative arbitrariness in West Bengal. Earlier, TMC alleged 40 SIR related deaths in West Bengal.
She claimed: “We are moving court tomorrow against the inhumane treatment and the death of so many people due to the SIR.”
She further said: “If allowed, I will also move the Supreme Court and plead as a common person against this inhumane exercise. I am also a trained lawyer.”
The Election Commission began the process of SIR in West Bengal on December 16, 2025.
At least 58 lakh voter names were deleted from the updated draft electoral roll, which will be on February 14.
Most of these deletions relate to cases where verification forms were not returned, or where voters were reported to be deceased, shifted to another location, absent, or duplicated in the electoral rolls.
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