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Claiming that nary due acknowledgement oregon receipt is being issued for the documents submitted by electors during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Monday (January 12, 2026) wrote yet different missive to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar.
In the letter, the Chief Minister said voters who were being issued proceeding notices were already mapped to the 2002 electoral rolls, either by themselves oregon done their progeny and that issuing specified notices successful these cases was truthful unnecessary.
This is the 5th missive written by the Chief Minister to the CEC since the SIR process began successful West Bengal. In her erstwhile letter, dated January 10, Ms. Banerjee had alleged that eminent citizens, including Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, were being harassed during the SIR exercise.
In Monday’s (January 12, 2026) letter, the Chief Minister said the non-issuance of documentary acknowledgement during SIR hearings “deprives electors of impervious of submission and places them astatine the mercy of interior record-keeping deficiencies”.
The Trinamool Congress chairperson alleged that the SIR process was mechanical and driven by technicalities alternatively than a reasoned exertion of mind. “Such administrative lapses are being unfairly forced upon citizens, causing terrible harassment and resulting successful the denial of their law rights. This defeats the precise nonsubjective of the Special Intensive Revision, which is intended to fortify and purify the electoral rolls, not to exclude genuine and eligible voters,” she said.
After astir 58 lakh names were struck disconnected successful the archetypal signifier of the SIR, astir 1.36 crore voters person been issued notices nether “logical discrepancies” successful the 2nd signifier of the exercise.
The Chief Minister pointed retired that galore genuine voters were being wrongly categorised arsenic “logical discrepancies.
“In the lack of a digitised database from the past SIR, the manual electoral rolls of 2002—including those published successful vernacular scripts—were scanned and translated into English utilizing Al tools. During this transliteration process, superior errors occurred successful elector particulars specified arsenic name, age, sex, narration and guardian’s name. These errors person resulted successful large-scale information mismatches, starring to galore genuine voters being categorised arsenic “logical discrepancies,” the missive pointed out.
Meanwhile, a conception of BLOs connected Monday held protests extracurricular the bureau of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer, alleging that the EC had remained indifferent to the deaths of respective BLOs during the ongoing SIR process. Members of the BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee claimed that BLOs crossed the State had been nether “tremendous intelligence and carnal pressure” ever since the revision workout began, with the workload taking a superior toll connected their health.
The agitating BLOs cited reports of aggregate deaths of officers successful antithetic districts since the revision of electoral rolls started. Ms. Banerjee, successful her missive to the CEC, besides referred to the deaths of BLOs arsenic good arsenic mean citizens owed to SIR.
