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The Election Commission of India (ECI) has admitted its mistake by extending the deadline for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by 7 days, the Trinamool Congress enactment said connected Sunday (November 30, 2025), adding that the ECI should apologise to the radical of West Bengal for the deaths which person allegedly occurred during the ‘hurriedly carried out’ revision.
The ECI connected Sunday (November 30, 2025) announced the hold of the docket of the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls successful 9 States and 3 Union Territories by 1 week.
Senior West Bengal Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya and Barrackpore MP Partha Bhowmick held a property league and said that Trinamool Congress was close erstwhile it had pointed retired that SIR was a hurriedly-held exercise.
“From the Trinamool Congress, we person been repeatedly saying that the clip fixed by the EC for SIR is not sufficient. Earlier it took 2 years, a process which they [EC] were trying to implicit successful 2 months. By extending the dates of SIR, they [ECI] person admitted their responsibility and immoderate the Trinamool Congress was saying has proved to beryllium correct,” Ms. Bhattacharya said.
A fewer days ago, a delegation of Trinamool Congress MPs had met ECI officials astatine Nirvachan Sadan successful New Delhi and raised 5 questions which included the deaths linked to alleged SIR-related stress.
The Minister besides raised the aforesaid question during the property league and said the EC should instrumentality work for the deaths during SIR.
“40 radical person mislaid their lives, they were each from West Bengal. What is the reply of EC to these deaths? Who volition instrumentality this responsibility,” she asked. The deaths successful West Bengal besides see that of Booth Level Officers (BLOs) and the Trinamool enactment has blamed SIR for the casualties.
Reacting to the hold of the SIR process, Union Minister and BJP person Sukanta Majumdar said the determination was purely wrong the discretion of the canvass body.
The West Bengal Congress questioned wherefore the SIR process was extended by lone 7 days, and demanded an hold for a month. CPI(M) person Sujan Chakraborty alleged that the BJP and the Trinamool Congress person entered into a “tacit understanding” implicit the SIR workout and were making lone nationalist postures connected the issue.
Meanwhile, successful a related development, the ECI appointed 13 peculiar observers to instrumentality banal of the SIR process successful the State. Retired IAS Officer Subrata Gupta, who has been appointed Special Roll Observer (SRO), connected Sunday (November 30, 2025) visited South 24 Parganas territory to reappraisal the progress. “I americium present to oversee whether the SIR process is being followed arsenic per the directive of the ECI. There are a fewer complaints, and we volition cross-check them,” Mr. Gupta said.
