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Highlighting the complaint astatine which appellate tribunals were restoring the names of electors deleted during the Special Intensive Revision successful West Bengal, Congress person and societal activistic Prasenjit Bose connected Wednesday (May 27, 2026) said that the improvement proves however genuine voters were wrongfully deleted during SIR successful West Bengal.
“Appellate Tribunals were constituted by the Hon’ble Supreme Court to perceive appeals, wherever astir 25 lakh appeals against deletions are reportedly pending. Till May 14, 2026, 6,581 appeals were disposed of by the tribunals, restoring the names of 4,043 electors (61%). This provides grounds of however genuine electors were wrongfully deleted nether SIR done opaque, arbitrary and discriminatory processes,” Mr. Bose said successful a statement.
Prasenjit Bose serves arsenic the chairperson, SIR Committee of West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee emphasised that with implicit 60% electors restored to elector database by the tribunals it is wide that genuine electors were deprived of their close to ballot successful the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election.
The remarks came connected the time erstwhile the Supreme Court upheld the SIR workout successful Bihar, saying conscionable due to the fact that the workout does not adhere strictly to modalities, it cannot beryllium invalidated.
Referring to the concern successful Bihar, Mr. Bose said that electors successful Bihar whose names person been erroneously deleted connected ASDD grounds person been provided the enactment to “assail the determination of the Commission by mode of judicial review”.
“The judicial forum wherever the aggrieved electors tin record their appeals/challenge request to beryllium specified,” Mr. Bose said.
Over 27 lakh voters who were enactment nether adjudication were excluded from West Bengal electoral rolls connected April 7, weeks earlier the Assembly polls successful the State. A 4th of specified deletions were reported successful two-Muslim dominated districts successful the State. The Trinamool Congress arsenic good arsenic the different Opposition parties similar the Congress and Communist Party of India (Marxist) had opposed the SIR, peculiarly to the deletion of 27 lakh electors who person traced their bequest nexus to 2022 electoral rolls but were excluded from the electoral rolls connected grounds of logical discrepancy. Many governmental observers nexus the SIR deletions to the monolithic triumph of the BJP successful 2026 West Bengal Assembly polls.
