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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is apt to look successful idiosyncratic connected Wednesday (February 4, 2026) earlier a Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant successful a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise conducted successful the State.
A batch of petitions challenging the constitutionality of the SIR process and the wide exclusion of electors from the voters’ database of the State is listed for proceeding connected Wednesday (February 4, 2026).
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Ms. Banerjee, presently successful the nationalist capital, has been vociferous against the SIR and has besides filed a petition successful her ain idiosyncratic capableness against the workout conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI).
A gross walk for introduction into the Supreme Court has been made for Wednesday (February 4, 2026), and she is expected to beryllium contiguous successful the tribunal country with her lawyers.
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A erstwhile proceeding saw the apex tribunal nonstop the ECI to people and show successful nationalist offices the database of idiosyncratic excluded from the electoral rotation owed to “logical discrepancies”.
West Bengal’s draught electoral rotation for the archetypal signifier of the SIR was released connected December 16, 2025. Names of over 58 lakh electors of West Bengal person been deleted. Multiple discrepancies were flagged successful the electoral rolls, including unusually precocious young deaths, sex bias successful deletions and peculiar communities facing much deletions than others.
