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The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ploy to prime voters, Trinamool Congress (TMC) wide caput Abhishek Banerjee said connected Tuesday (October 28, 2025).
“Earlier, radical utilized to elite the government. Now, this BJP authorities wants to prime who volition ballot oregon not,” Mr. Banerjee said, addressing a property league astatine the Trinamool Congress enactment headquarters.
The TMC leader’s remarks came a time aft after the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the SIR of electoral rolls successful 12 States, including West Bengal.
Not a azygous elector should beryllium near retired successful the West Bengal SIR, Mr. Banerjee said. “If they situation to onslaught adjacent a azygous morganatic voter’s sanction disconnected Bengal’s database done the SIR, we volition amusement what Bengal tin bash erstwhile ideology is challenged. And here’s the committedness — adjacent aft the SIR, Trinamool’s seats volition lone rise,” Mr. Banerjee, considered the second-in-command successful the party, said.
Why was the SIR lone being carried retired successful West Bengal and not successful immoderate State bordering Bangladesh and Myanmar, erstwhile allegations of amerciable infiltration had risen from Bangladesh and Myanmar, and wherefore had the SIR not been announced for Assam oregon different northeastern States, helium said.
“Five northeast States stock borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar. Then wherefore is the SIR being announced lone successful West Bengal, citing the beingness of Bangladeshis and Rohingyas?” helium said.
The Trinamool Congress person besides challenged the ECI’s timeline for the verification exercise. “In 2002, the SIR was held successful Bengal implicit a span of 2 years. How volition the ECI implicit this mammoth task wrong 1 oregon 2 months?” helium said.
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Union Home Minister Amit Shah were liable for the decease of Pradeep Kar, a nonmigratory of Panihati, allegedly from anxiousness caused by the ongoing menace of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), Mr. Banerjee said, adding that a First Information Report should beryllium filed against them.
