Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of selectively deleting voters from the Assembly constituencies with Trinamool Congress legislators in the state through the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR).“In Assembly constituencies with Bharatiya Janata Party legislators, names of a maximum of 3,000 to 4,000 voters are deleted. Whereas, in the Assembly constituencies with Trinamool Congress legislators, the nu…
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Kolkata, Jan 25 (IANS) West Bengal Minister Shashi Panja has received a summons for a Special Intensive Revision hearing, instructing her to appear at an SIR hearing centre in Kolkata on Sunday. Shashi Panja is the state Industries, Commerce and Enterprises minister and minister of state (independent charge) for Women and Child Development and Social Welfare.Her name was on the 2002 voter list of West Bengal, and she had provided all the necessary information in the enumeration form for the ongo…
Kolkata, Jan 22 (IANS) Even on the occasion of the inauguration of the Kolkata International Book Fair, 2026, on Thursday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched a scathing attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI) over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state and called for a united movement by all sections of society against hearing notices served to celebrities, intellectuals and socially acclaimed persons.“The SIR exercise is going on in West Bengal. Al…
Kolkata, Jan 16 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Friday, accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of deliberately targeting the minority voters for deletion through the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state. She also claimed that around 90,000 voters in the minority-dominated Malda district are slated to be deleted in the final voters’ list.”The grievance of the people from the minority community is quite justified. The voters from this community are sp…
Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday rejected allegations by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) that two of its former Rajya Sabha members were summoned for hearings during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls without valid grounds. Earlier in the day, reports emerged that former TMC Rajya Sabha MP and ex-Mohun Bagan football club president Swapan Sadhan Bose, popularly known as Tutu Bose, and his son Srinjoy Bose — also a former Rajya Sabha MP a…
Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) Former Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP and former Mohun Bagan football club president Swapan Sadhan Bose, popularly known as Tutu Bose, has been issued a notice to appear for a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearing.His son Srinjoy Bose, general secretary of Mohun Bagan and a former TMC Rajya Sabha MP, has also received a similar notice. According to party sources, the entire Bose family has been summoned for the SIR hearing.The development was shared by Mohun Bagan vi…
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday gave an additional clarification on why the notice for hearing on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list was served to Nobel Awardee Economist, Dr Amartya Sen.On Tuesday, after the Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee, accused the Commission of unnecessarily sending the hearing notice to Dr Sen, the ECI had given its initial clarification that the notice was serve…
Kolkata, Jan 6 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Tuesday, clarified the claims made by the Trinamool Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha MP, Abhishek Banerjee, accusing the Commission of serving notice for a hearing on claims and objections over the draft voters’ list in West Bengal to Nobel laureate and economist Amartya Sen. Hours after Abhishek Banerjee claimed the matter at a public rally in Birbhum district, the native district of Sen where he continues to be a voter, t…
Kolkata, Jan 6 (IANS) Trinamool Congress All-India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday asserted that no amount of threat, intimidation, or conspiracy would prevent him from attending his scheduled programmes. His remarks came after the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) denied clearance for his chopper to fly from Kolkata.Banerjee revealed that, following discussions with Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and support from the Jharkhand government, an alternative chopper …