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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged connected Tuesday (January 13, 2026) that the 54 lakh names, which were deleted from the draught rolls during the SIR successful the State, were done unilaterally and by misusing powers of electoral registration officers (EROs).
Ms. Banerjee alleged that a bulk of the deleted voters were "genuine electors", who were not allowed to support themselves due to the fact that they weren't adjacent apprised of the grounds of deletion.
"The EC, portion sitting successful Delhi, utilized AI tools devised by the BJP to delete names. These AI bundle accounted for the names mismatch successful SIR data. They deleted names of women who changed surnames station marriage," Ms. Banerjee alleged, portion addressing a property league astatine the State secretariat Nabanna.
Claiming that 'logical discrepancy' was not portion of the archetypal SIR verification process, and that it was "included arsenic an afterthought to adhd to deletions", Ms. Banerjee said that the "BJP-EC nexus" was readying to region different 1 crore names from the last rolls.
"The EC has not allowed BLA-2s to be hearings due to the fact that the BJP couldn't amass its workers to bash the job," Ms. Banerjee, besides the TMC supremo, said.
