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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Thursday (November 20, 2025) wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alleging that the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful the authorities is being tally successful an “unplanned and coercive” manner, putting citizens and officials astatine risk.
She besides claimed that the SIR workout has reached an "alarming" and "dangerous" stage.
Ms. Banerjee said she had “time and again” flagged her concerns implicit the ongoing SIR process, and told the CEC that she is present “compelled to write” due to the fact that the concern has “deeply deteriorated”.
The Chief Minister alleged that the voters' database revision workout is being “forced upon” radical "without basal preparedness oregon capable planning".
“The mode successful which this workout is being forced upon officials and citizens is not lone unplanned and chaotic, but besides dangerous. The lack of adjacent basal preparedness, capable readying oregon wide connection has crippled the process from time one,” the Chief Minister wrote.
Pointing to "critical gaps" successful training, deficiency of clarity connected mandatory documentation, and the "near-impossibility" of BLOs gathering voters during their livelihood hours, Ms. Banerjee said the full SIR workout has go “structurally unsound”.
The CM said the “human outgo of SIR mismanagement is present unbearable”, citing the decease of an anganwadi idiosyncratic serving arsenic a booth-level serviceman successful Mal, Jalpaiguri.
She died by suicide, “reportedly nether crushing SIR-related pressure”. “Several others person mislaid their lives since this process began,” Ms. Banerjee said.
"Under these circumstances, I powerfully impulse and expect contiguous corrective action," she added.
