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The Trinamool Congress connected Sunday (November 30, 2025) accused the Election Commission of India of making 'selective leaks' to BJP leaders, and described the canvass sheet arsenic an 'extended body' of the saffron camp.
At slightest 40 people, including 4 BLOs, mislaid their lives owed to accent related to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) successful West Bengal successful the past 1 month, the TMC claimed and alleged that ECI was liable for the deaths, and Chief Election Commissionar Gyanesh Kumar has “blood successful his hands”.
Addressing a property league here, elder TMC leaders wondered however the person of the absorption Suvendu Adhikari “predicted” the fig of phases of polls during the adjacent year’s assembly elections and announced that names of 1 crore radical volition beryllium removed successful the ongoing SIR exercise.
Claiming that BJP leaders similar Mr. Adhikari had stated that the State polls could beryllium conducted successful 2 to 3 phases alternatively of 8 phases arsenic had been done successful 2021, elder Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said, "If the EC is so autonomous, however tin BJP leaders confidently talk astir the fig of phases oregon the timing of the SIR?"
From time one, Suvendu Adhikari and different BJP leaders person created a consciousness of fearfulness among communal radical by repeatedly claiming that 1 crore names volition beryllium removed from the elector database successful the state, TMC MP Partha Bhowmik said.
“How did they cognize the figure? The EC, alternatively of answering our questions, is engaged making selective leaks to the BJP’s propaganda machine. Instead of moving arsenic a neutral institution, ECI is moving arsenic the BJP’s extended body,” Mr. Bhowmik said.
ECI officials, however, said it could not remark connected the claims made by governmental leaders.
Ms. Bhattacharya said that the TMC is not against the SIR, but against its “reckless and hasty implementation”.
Mr. Bhowmik alleged that Kumar "has humor connected his hands," since helium is the CEC and frankincense is liable for implicit 40 SIR-related deaths successful the past 1 month.
“What is adjacent worse is that they person zero remorse for the radical who died. Not 1 connection from the PM, Amit Shah, oregon Gyanesh Kumar expressing regret for the nonaccomplishment of lives. Their soundlessness exposes their complicity," the Minister said.
About the hold of SIR timeline, she said if the ECI was truthful superior astir this process, they should person started it a fewer months agone with important timeframe and planning.
“Why did they motorboat an unplanned workout without grooming BLOs properly, without fixing app glitches, without ensuring net access, and without cleaning up irregular elector lists?" she asked.
