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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s quality earlier the Supreme Court, wherever she sought to rise objections to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR), has travel arsenic a large changeable successful the limb for the Trinamool Congress. The ruling enactment hailed the improvement arsenic a “BIG WIN for Hon’ble Chief Minister Smt. @MamataOfficial” and said the Supreme Court directed officials to enactment with sensitivity.
Photos and videos of the Chief Minister appearing earlier the part Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant were wide circulated by the enactment connected societal media. “Inside the Supreme Court, Mamata Banerjee wore the lawyer’s coat, argued with facts, and forced accountability,” the enactment posted connected societal media.
“History is written by those who garbage to enactment silent. When ideology is nether attack, Didi stands up for Bengal with courageousness and conviction. Today’s combat is not astir power, it is astir the people,” the Trinamool Congress said successful different societal media message.
From Ministers successful the West Bengal authorities to enactment MPs and spokespersons, respective Trinamool Congress leaders lauded the efforts of the enactment chairperson successful arguing against the SIR earlier the Supreme Court. The Chief Minister has opposed the SIR since the workout was held up of the Assembly elections successful Bihar past year. Once the process began successful West Bengal successful November 2025, Ms. Banerjee took to the streets to protestation against it. Between November 2025 and January 2026, she wrote six letters to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Her sojourn to Delhi is being described arsenic the culmination of the protestation against the SIR. Apart from parading those who, according to the party, suffered connected relationship of the SIR, she held a gathering with the CEC alleging mistreatment and, connected Wednesday (February 4, 2026), appeared earlier the Supreme Court.
SIR arsenic canvass plank
While the SIR is aimed astatine cleansing the electoral rolls successful West Bengal, the workout has go an predetermination contented successful the State up of the upcoming Assembly elections. For the Trinamool Congress, which is facing anti incumbency aft 3 terms, the ongoing SIR has emerged arsenic a canvass plank. The enactment claims that the Bharatiya Janata Party, successful collusion with the Election Commission of India, is harassing radical successful the State and attempting to delete genuine voters.
In the archetypal signifier of the SIR, astir 58 lakh names were removed from the State’s electoral roll, portion astir 1.36 crore voters, oregon astir 20% of the electorate, were included nether logical discrepancies. The full fig of electors successful the State is astir 7.08 crore.
The West Bengal BJP leadership, which has been demanding the SIR, has admitted harassment of radical connected relationship of the exercise, but alleged that the Trinamool Congress, successful collusion with a fewer officials progressive successful the process, is liable for the harassment.
Amid the governmental tussle, relations betwixt the West Bengal authorities and the Election Commission of India reached different dormant extremity implicit the assignment of State authorities officials arsenic cardinal canvass observers for different States. The ECI connected Wednesday communicated to the West Bengal authorities that nary alteration would beryllium allowed successful the database of 15 IAS and 10 IPS officers from the West Bengal cadre who were primitively selected by the Commission for assignment arsenic cardinal canvass observers successful different States.
