Mamata’s allegations on Bengal SIR baseless, exaggerated: BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari

Leader of the Opposition successful the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, connected Sunday (January 11, 2026) termed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's allegations implicit the ongoing SIR successful the State arsenic "baseless and exaggerated", and accused her of trying to derail the electoral rotation revision workout for governmental reasons.

In a station connected X, Mr. Adhikari besides said helium has written to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, and claimed that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls was "exposing the rot successful the elector lists — bogus entries, duplicates, and infiltrators that person been nurtured nether the TMC's ticker for years".

The BJP person alleged that the SIR workout was "damaging the TMC's electoral prospects", and that's wherefore the CM was resorting to hysteria".

Ms. Banerjee had connected Saturday (January 10, 2026) written to the CEC, alleging that the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls has been turned into an workout to exclude voters alternatively than close records.

In her 3rd missive to Mr. Kumar since the opening of SIR, the Chief Minister accused the Election Commission of "political bias, insensitivity, and high-handedness" during the exercise.

“I would again reiterate that her claims are thing but a hopeless effort to derail this important process, which is exposing the rot successful our elector lists — bogus entries, duplicates and infiltrators that person been nurtured nether TMC’s ticker for years,” Mr. Adhikari alleged successful the post.

In his missive to the CEC, dated January 10, the Leader of the Opposition described the Chief Minister’s objections arsenic a “politically motivated attempt” to obstruct the SIR and termed the ECI’s determination arsenic "essential to guarantee free, just and transparent" elections successful the State.

"The Chief Minister’s portrayal of this workout arsenic ‘unplanned, insensitive and inhuman’ is thing abbreviated of a gross exaggeration, blown retired of proportionality to make nationalist hysteria and displacement absorption from her government’s failures," the BJP person alleged.

He claimed that the SIR workout had "exposed vulnerabilities successful the electoral rolls that threatened the ruling party’s electoral prospects", triggering what helium termed “unfounded outbursts” from the State administration.

On December 16, the Election Commission published the draft electoral rolls aft the archetypal signifier of the SIR, with the electorate dropping from 7.66 crore to 7.08 crore pursuing the deletion of implicit 58 lakh names.

The 2nd phase, which began connected December 27, involves hearings of 1.67 crore electors nether scrutiny, including 1.36 crore flagged for logical discrepancies and 31 lakh whose records deficiency mapping.

The LoP urged the Election Commission to proceed the elector database revision workout with diligence, asserting that the SIR is simply a regular law process and should not beryllium politicised.