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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee volition deed the streets successful Kolkata connected November 4 to protestation against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The Trinamool Congress chairperson volition besides beryllium joined by enactment wide caput Abhishek Banerjee successful a protestation rally from Red Road to Jorasanko connected November 4.
While the Trinamool Congress enactment has softened its basal from not allowing SIR successful the State to not letting immoderate morganatic elector to beryllium struck of from electoral rolls the protestation rally is being considered arsenic an effort to support the unit connected the ECI which is conducting SIR successful 12 states including West Bengal. The rally volition coincide with the time erstwhile the doorway to doorway enumeration for the SIR volition start. Under the SIR house-to-house enumeration volition instrumentality spot for a period from November 4 to December 4.
The Trinamool Congress enactment person tried to gully a parallel betwixt SIR and National Register of Citizens (NRC) and highlighted a fewer suicides claiming that the radical who took the utmost measurement were traumatised by NRC/SIR.
Meanwhile, the Trinamool Congress has besides sent a ailment to the bureau of Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) West Bengal alleging that Leader of Opposition successful West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari has issued threats to Booth Level Officers (BLOs).
Senior TMC person and West Bengal Minister Aroop Biswas, successful a missive to the CEO connected Friday (October 31, 2025), alleged that Mr. Adhikari, during a caller property interaction, had openly threatened BLOs with imprisonment if they did not comply with his instruction
In the letter, Mr. Biswas demanded that the CEO nonstop constabulary to registry an FIR against Mr Adhikari for transgression intimidation. Speaking to media persons a fewer days agone the BJP person had made notation to Bihar saying that 54 CEOs who did not travel the guidelines of Commission person been enactment down bars. Mr. Adhikari defended the charges against him and said that helium said thing amerciable and helium volition repetition the remarks a fig of times. The BJP person said that BLOs person to enactment independently and not successful favour of immoderate governmental party.
Meanwhile, State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said that the enactment believes that amerciable voters should beryllium “detected and deleted” during the SIR. Mr. Bhattacharya said that the Trinamool does not privation immoderate deletions from electoral rolls, including that of dormant voters.
