West Bengal’s Chief Minister criticized the state’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) during an Eid festival gathering. She launched a strong attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of being the main force behind the revision. The Chief Minister vowed to protect the voting rights of the people and fight against the deletion of names from the voters’ list.
She highlighted that numerous names had been removed in West Bengal through these revision processes. The Chief Minister expressed her ongoing battle against this issue, taking it to the Supreme Court to combat the widespread deletion of names. Amidst this, the Election Commission of India announced the publication of the first supplementary list of cases referred for judicial adjudication due to “logical discrepancy” cases.
According to the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) in West Bengal, about 34% of names that underwent judicial adjudication were found excludable by the judicial officers. These individuals will have the opportunity to appeal to any of the 19 Appellate Tribunals established for this purpose. The Chief Minister emphasized West Bengal’s history of communal harmony and vowed to resist any attempts to polarize people based on religion.
During the same event, Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee stressed the importance of maintaining communal harmony in West Bengal. He called for unity for the sake of humanity and wished for Bengal’s harmony to remain undisturbed, refraining from making political statements.
