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Branding the ongoing peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being carried retired by the Election Commission (EC) arsenic ‘Software Intensive Rigging’, the Trinamool Congress connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026) stressed connected the request for much “transparency” successful the ongoing process for electoral rotation revision successful West Bengal.
Their remarks travel a time aft the Supreme Court’s observations criticising the EC for causing “stress and strain” to the mean radical of West Bengal wherever 1.36 crore people, astir 20% of the State’s population, person received notices from the canvass assemblage to explicate “logical discrepancies” successful their names and household backgrounds.
The Trinamool person said the radical would combat those who were making the electoral process “burdensome” for them.
Addressing the property league astatine the party’s bureau successful New Delhi, Rajya Sabha level person Derek O’Brien reiterated that the Trinamool is not against the SIR. “We are for SIR, but we are for a transparent, planned, humane SIR,” helium said. He urged the Commission to merchandise the transcripts of the discussions.
‘Great instauration being dismantled’
“What does SIR really basal for? Software Intensive Rigging... The EC is 1 of the large institutions of our country, which has kept ideology vibrant for truthful galore decades, but what has been happening present is simply a dismantling of this large institution,” Mr. O’Brien said astatine the property conference. He besides questioned the aggregate changes successful the procedures. Mr. O’Brien besides urged the Commission to instrumentality the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) fairly, and not nonstop it astatine the Opposition parties alone.
Targeting Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, helium pointed retired that anterior to his assignment to the EC, helium retired arsenic the caput of the Ministry of Cooperation nether Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who besides the Minister of Cooperation.
His workfellow successful the Rajya Sabha, Sagarika Ghosh, alleged that though the SIR was earlier conducted successful Bihar, the workout was yet “aimed astatine West Bengal to disenfranchise the voters of the State”. She besides questioned wherefore the class of “logical discrepancies”, which did not beryllium successful Bihar, had been introduced for West Bengal.
Mr. O’Brien further said, “We are gladsome that the radical of Bengal are warring this — it is not TMC versus idiosyncratic else. This is the radical of Bengal versus those who are trying to marque the electoral process burdensome connected the elector.”
The enactment had posted connected societal media connected Monday (January 19, 2026), “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.”
Trinamool 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 had said astatine a nationalist gathering connected Monday (January 19).
