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The Trinamool Congress (TMC) connected Monday (January 19, 2026) welcomed the Supreme Court’s intervention directing the Election Commission of India (ECI) to people the database of persons to whom notices person been sent, citing “logical discrepancies” successful the enumeration forms submitted by them during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) successful West Bengal.
About 1.36 crore notices of ‘logical discrepancies’ person been issued by the ECI implicit the past month, aft the archetypal signifier of the SIR successful West Bengal, but the Commission did not people the database of the radical who had been issued this notice.
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The Supreme Court connected Monday (January 19) besides instructed the ECI to supply wide guidance for submitting documents and objections, and asked the West Bengal authorities to supply capable manpower for the process.
“The SC has rightly ordered that the names of those arbitrarily slapped with the vague, sinister statement of ‘logical discrepancy’ indispensable beryllium publically published. The BJP-ECI harvester has been exposed for the Bangla birodhi zamindars (landowners against the Bangla people) they are,” the Trinamool Congress posted connected societal media .
TMC wide caput Abhishek Banerjee besides hailed the development. “The BJP’s crippled of SIR has ended. This is simply a triumph of ma (mother), maati (earth), manush (human) and the radical of Bengal. Those who wanted to instrumentality distant the cardinal close of voting of the radical of Bengal, this is simply a choky slap connected some their cheeks by the Supreme Court,” Mr. Banerjee said astatine a nationalist gathering connected Monday (January 19).
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The Trinamool Congress person besides added that helium had “defeated them (the BJP) judicially, and successful April volition decision them electorally (in the Assembly election)”.
The Supreme Court had besides said the database of unmapped voters indispensable beryllium published, the TMC said successful its societal media post, and “BLAs (Booth-Level Agents nominated by governmental parties) allowed to be hearings,...Madhyamik admit cards accepted arsenic valid ID, and written receipts issued to each summoned voter”. The ECI had refused to let electors utilizing the admit paper of Madhyamik (Class X Board) exams arsenic a valid papers for the SIR process.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, successful her 5th missive to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar connected January 12, had pointed retired that galore genuine voters were being wrongly categorised nether ‘logical discrepancies’. Her authorities would determination the Supreme Court implicit the ‘logical discrepancies’, Ms. Banerjee.
Several eminent persons of the State, including Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, histrion and Trinamool Congress MP Dev, respective MLAs of the Trinamool Congress, and erstwhile Rajya Sabha MP and BJP person Swapan Dasgupta, person been served notices to look earlier the ECI nether the ‘logical discrepancies’ category.
