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The ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls undertaken by the Election Commission lone aims to “delete” electors, not authenticate them, Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee claimed connected Tuesday (December 9, 2025), calling the workout arbitrary.
Participating successful a treatment connected ‘Election Reforms’ successful the Lok Sabha, Mr. Banerjee asked, “Why should an elector, whose sanction was determination successful 2024 (voter list), beryllium told that helium is not an elector due to the fact that his sanction was not determination successful 2002?” Deletion of voters, helium said, would undermine the antiauthoritarian process.
“What is the constituent of an predetermination if you delete voters?” the Trinamool MP questioned, adding, “Now, Prime Minister Modi decides done the Election Commission of India (ECI) who volition beryllium a voter.” Insisting that “nobody is supra the law”, Mr. Banerjee said the Supreme Court would person the last connection connected the legality of the ECI's actions.
Mr. Banerjee besides criticised the canvass authority’s attack to delimitation and the usage of integer applications to verify household relationships successful elector lists.
He argued that the instrumentality does not specify 'relative' successful the rigid mode being applied. “Unless parents’ names are there, they volition not beryllium treated arsenic relatives. Will an app determine who volition beryllium my relative? My member is not my relative, my woman is not my relative?” helium asked, calling the workout arbitrary.
The intent of the strategy should beryllium inclusion, but “SIR is lone meant to delete electors”, the four-time MP from Serampore successful West Bengal said. Mr. Banerjee besides claimed that excessive workload fixed to the Booth Level Officers (BLOs) successful West Bengal led to a bid of tragedies.
“In West Bengal, 20 persons died, 5 fell critically ill, 19 persons expired, and 3 attempted to extremity their lives,” Mr. Banerjee claimed, asking, “Who volition beryllium responsible? The Election Commission?” He added that these incidents were not confined to Bengal unsocial and pointed to akin cases successful different States.
Citing figures, helium said Uttar Pradesh reported 10 specified cases, Madhya Pradesh nine, Gujarat six, and Rajasthan three. Kerala had 1 case, and Tamil Nadu had two, Mr. Banerjee said, arguing that the occupation spanned some BJP- and non-BJP-ruled States.
“Three are non-BJP and 5 are BJP States,” helium said, adding that portion the BJP MPs did not sojourn the affected families, “we had gone”.
