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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) filed successful the SIR enumeration form, according to officials astatine the State’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) office.
Ms. Banerjee’s information successful the SIR process connected the past time of the postulation of filled-in enumeration forms was, however, not without controversy. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) enactment connected Friday (December 12) pointed retired that astatine a rally successful Krishnanagar connected Thursday, the State’s Chief Minister had denied participating successful the SIR process.
“West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has erstwhile again shown her instinct to mislead. She submitted her duly filled and signed Enumeration Form connected the precise past day, yet conscionable hours earlier from a rally successful Krishnanagar she falsely claimed she would not taxable it astatine all,” BJP IT compartment main Amit Malviya posted connected societal media.
Mr. Malviya besides added that “after months of misinformation and attempts to confuse the voters of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee yet submitted her ain SIR Enumeration Form connected 11 December 2025 to stay a valid elector of West Bengal”.
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Since the commencement of the SIR successful West Bengal connected November 4, Trinamool Congress chairperson has repeatedly said that she volition not capable the SIR enumeration signifier till each the radical of the authorities person filled successful their forms.
Amidst reports that a booth level serviceman (BLO) visited her authoritative residence successful the archetypal week of November, Ms. Banerjee took to societal media to contradict reports “by a conception of media” that she had stepped retired and received the signifier successful person.
“A conception of the media has written that I stepped retired of my residence and received the enumeration signifier personally. This is wholly mendacious and misleading,” she said, adding, “Until each and each 1 from Bengal fills up their form, I volition not bash so.” the Chief Minister had said connected November 6. Since then, Ms. Banerjee has maintained her stand.
Officials astatine the CEO bureau clarified that arsenic a serving main minister, is already enrolled arsenic a “marked elector”, a class that includes the Prime Minister, each main ministers and different law office-bearers.
West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said that SIR is simply a law process acrophobic with nationalist involvement and nationalist security, and thing amended was expected from her. “She does everything and past denies it. During the COVID-19 pandemic she had criticised the vaccine, but was among the archetypal to instrumentality the vaccine,” Mr. Bhattacharya said.
Meanwhile, aft 5 weeks of SIR process successful West Bengal, the fig of “uncollectable” enumeration forms connected relationship of absent, shifted, duplicate and dormant voters stands astatine 58 lakhs, which see astir 24.2 lakh electors truthful acold identified arsenic dead. The draught electoral rotation of the State which is headed for Assembly polls adjacent twelvemonth is expected connected December 16.
