Mamata ends SIR stir, says game is not yet over

Four days aft she sat connected a sit-in objection successful Kolkata protesting the deletions during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ended her dharna on Tuesday (March 10, 2026) with a committedness to proceed the combat till each elector was assured of their close to vote. 

Ms. Banerjee cited the developments successful the Supreme Court earlier connected Tuesday (March 10, 2026), erstwhile the tribunal suggested mounting up a peculiar tribunal to perceive appeals from the objections phase as a affirmative result of her protest.  

“Even if they [the Election Commission of India oregon EC] declare the elections connected March 15-16, the crippled volition not extremity there. The crippled volition proceed successful the Supreme Court,” Ms. Banerjee said, from the signifier acceptable up for the dharna, earlier ending her sit-in objection connected its 5th day. 

“Our dharna was for two reasons — one was for the radical who were wrongfully deleted from the elector lists, and to bring justness for the radical who were placed nether adjudication and guarantee they get backmost their elector rights,” she said.  

Her dharna was besides against the interference of the EC in the enactment of judicial officers who were moving to resoluteness the cases under adjudication, she said. 

During the five-day protest, Ms. Banerjee and her enactment aides targeted the EC. The Commission was moving arsenic an cause of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to snatch voting rights away from radical of the State, Ms. Banerjee said. 

The Chief Minister’s dharna began connected March 6. She was joined by her enactment colleagues, including MPs and Ministers. The determination to extremity the objection came aft Trinamool Congress wide caput Abhishek Banerjee made a nationalist entreaty connected Tuesday (March 10) to the enactment chairperson and his aunt to extremity the protest. 

“The Supreme Court has acknowledged our demands today. So, I americium appealing to Didi connected behalf of everybody that you person been connected the roadworthy for the past 5 days... Now telephone for an extremity to this dharna,” Mr. Banerjee said from the stage acceptable up for the dharna. 

The combat was not ending, the Diamond Harbour MP said, and they would extremity the combat lone erstwhile each national got their right to vote. TMC workers were inactive there, helium said, and they would proceed the combat connected the roadworthy from hereon, and would “defeat the BJP from each 80,000 booths”. 

Meets C.V. Ananda Bose 

After ending her dharna in Kolkata, Ms. Banerjee went to conscionable former West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose in Kolkata. Mr. Bose resigned connected March 5; erstwhile Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi is slated to instrumentality implicit arsenic the adjacent Governor of West Bengal. 

The Trinamool Congress chairperson started the dharna arsenic a protest against “wrongfully” deleted voters, and for the 60 lakh people of West Bengal placed nether adjudication aft the SIR process was completed and the last elector database was published on February 28. 

The afloat Bench of the EC, connected a two-day sojourn to West Bengal, is apt to caput backmost to Delhi and denote the Assembly predetermination successful the adjacent fewer days, adjacent arsenic the elector rights of 60 lakh radical stay successful a limbo.

The Assembly election may beryllium held successful April.