West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written a fifth letter to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, highlighting issues in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in the state. She expressed concerns about procedural lapses leading to citizen harassment and wrongful disenfranchisement. Banerjee emphasized the lack of proper acknowledgment for documents submitted by electors during the SIR hearings, resulting in their names being deleted from electoral rolls.
In her letter, Banerjee pointed out that due to errors in the digitization process of manual voter lists from 2002, genuine voters are being flagged as ‘logical discrepancies.’ She criticized the Election Commission for disregarding its own established processes of correcting electors’ particulars over the past two decades. Banerjee described this approach as arbitrary, illogical, and against the principles of the Indian Constitution.
Despite sending four previous letters to the CEC, Banerjee has not received any response regarding the concerns raised about the SIR exercise in West Bengal.
