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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee continued her protestation against alleged arbitrary deletions successful the post-SIR electoral rolls for the 2nd consecutive time connected Saturday (March 7, 2026), aft she spent the nighttime astatine the sit-in tract successful Kolkata.
Ms. Banerjee had begun the objection astatine Metro Channel successful cardinal Kolkata connected Friday (March 6), accusing the Election Commission of conspiring with the BJP to “disenfranchise Bengal voters” up of the upcoming Assembly elections.
The Chief Minister stayed overnight astatine the protestation site, surrounded by elder Trinamool Congress leaders, legislators and enactment workers, turning the engaged Esplanade agelong into a makeshift governmental camp.
Addressing supporters connected Friday (March 6) afternoon, Ms. Banerjee alleged that ample numbers of genuine voters were being removed from the electoral rolls nether the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
The CM besides reiterated her assertion that respective voters had been "wrongly marked arsenic dead” and said she would contiguous specified individuals earlier the media and the Election Commission to exposure what she described arsenic an "attempt to manipulate the elector database to assistance the BJP successful the upcoming Assembly polls".
Senior TMC leaders and State Ministers remained contiguous astatine the venue, portion enactment supporters gathered astatine the protestation tract successful the morning.
The protestation comes conscionable days earlier the afloat seat of the Election Commission is scheduled to sojourn West Bengal, amid rising governmental tensions implicit the voter database revision up of the Assembly polls.
According to authoritative information released connected February 28, arsenic galore arsenic 63.66 lakh names — astir 8.3% of the electorate — person been deleted since the SIR process began successful November past year, reducing the elector basal from astir 7.66 crore to conscionable implicit 7.04 crore.
In addition, implicit 60.06 lakh electors person been placed nether the “under adjudication” category, meaning their eligibility volition beryllium determined done ineligible scrutiny successful the coming weeks, a process that could further reshape constituency-level electoral equations.
