Mamata alleges ECI-BJP nexus over deletions in Bengal’s post-SIR rolls

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Monday (March 2, 2026) launched a blistering onslaught connected the Election Commission of India (ECI) implicit deletions successful the post-SIR rolls, alleging a "nexus" betwixt the canvass sheet and the BJP to disenfranchise genuine voters, and assistance the saffron enactment successful the upcoming assembly elections.

Ms. Banerjee, successful her archetypal absorption aft the work of West Bengal's post-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls connected February 28, claimed that the deletions had been carried retired "deliberately by the BJP and the EC" to tilt the electoral equilibrium successful its favour successful the polls.

"The Election Commission has deliberately deleted genuine voters. I americium shocked. This is simply a precise bittersweet and inhumane authorities of affairs," she said.

The post-SIR rolls recorded 63.66 lakh deletions, 8.3% of the electorate, reducing the voter basal to a small implicit 7.04 crore.

More than 60.06 lakh voters person besides been placed successful the "under adjudication" category, taxable to scrutiny successful the coming weeks, marking the astir sweeping electoral reset successful the authorities since 2002.

Assembly elections are apt successful the authorities successful April.

Claiming that adjacent her ain Bhabanipur constituency had witnessed "massive deletions", Ms. Banerjee asserted that she would look victorious careless of the standard of the revision.

"Despite monolithic deletions successful my Bhabanipur constituency, I volition triumph adjacent if determination is 1 elector left," she said astatine a nationalist programme here.

The work of the post-SIR rolls has triggered a governmental contention successful the State, with absorption parties alleging that lakhs of names were removed from the electoral list.

Ms. Banerjee asserted that the ruling BJP astatine the Centre was resorting to elector deletions, arsenic it “could not triumph elections connected its ain merit”.

“They cannot triumph elections due to the fact that radical won’t ballot for them. So they are deleting voters,” the Chief Minister alleged.

Signalling an escalation of the TMC’s agitation implicit the issue, Ms. Banerjee, besides the enactment supremo, said she would beryllium connected a dharna from March 6 against the “nexus betwixt the ECI and the BJP” to onslaught disconnected genuine voters.

In a swipe astatine the BJP’s ongoing ‘Poriborton Yatra’ successful West Bengal, Ms. Banerjee said, “This volition beryllium the party’s past yatra successful Bengal.”