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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Tuesday (February 17, 2026) slammed the Election Commission of India calling it a ‘Tughlaqi Commission’ tally by a governmental enactment and said it is “targeting mean radical similar terrorists”.
The Chief Minister said the canvass assemblage deleted names of voters successful Bengal during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls connected “instructions from the BJP”.
Ms. Banerjee, who has opposed the SIR exercise, alleged that a “woman functionary successful the BJP IT compartment removed 58 lakh voters’ names successful Bengal utilizing AI.”
The SIR hearings ended successful West Bengal connected February 14 aft a seven-day hold from the canvass body.
The Chief Minister said the Commission was “defying” Supreme Court orders and “targeting voters and undermining democracy”, adding that by citing logical discrepancy, the Election Commission is “snatching distant antiauthoritarian rights of voters”.
Ms. Banerjee said that 160 radical mislaid their lives owed to “SIR anxiousness and work-related pressure” successful the State.
She said that if State Government unit are “penalised by EC, we volition 100% support them”. “We volition beforehand those Bengal Government officers who volition beryllium demoted by the EC,” she said.
Around 58 lakh voters were deleted from the draught electoral rolls published successful the State nether the dead, permanently shifted and untraceable categories. The canvass assemblage summoned much than 94.49 lakh radical for hearings citing logical discrepancies; 31.68 lakh were classified arsenic “unmapped” and were asked to look for the hearings.
