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Trinamool Congress nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee connected Saturday (December 27, 2025) questioned wherefore the Election Commission of India (ECI) appointed micro observers in West Bengal erstwhile it had the slightest fig of elector deletions successful the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) process.
Based on previous claims by the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), wherever they alleged that determination are implicit 1 crore “infiltrators” successful West Bengal, Mr. Banerjee, the second-in-command successful the Trinamool, asked the database of infiltrators to beryllium published by the ECI.
“According to the draught electoral rolls data published by the EC, Tamil Nadu had 12.57% elector deletions, Gujarat had 9.95% deletions, Chhattisgarh had 8.76% deletions, Kerala had 6.65% deletions, successful West Bengal the fig was the lowest astatine 5.79%...still they appointed micro observers here not successful the different States wherever determination were massive deletions,” Mr. Banerjee added.
‘To harass people’
The SIR was carried retired successful West Bengal conscionable to “harass” the people, Mr. Banerjee said. Of the 58 lakh deleted voters successful the draught elector list, helium besides asked the ECI to clarify who among these radical are “infiltrators”. He besides raised questions astir wherefore the ECI is not sending amusement origin notices to these alleged “infiltrators” to identify them.
“If cleaning the elector database is your goal, past people the names of the 1.36 crore radical who person been flagged successful the logical discrepancies category... Why are you not transparent astir it? Why is the EC frightened to people the list?” Mr. Banerjee asked.
The Trinamool Lok Sabha MP from Diamond Harbour constituency also said that helium volition caput to New Delhi connected December 31, wherever helium volition airs these questions to the ECI officials and conscionable Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. “If they bash not reply our questions, we will gherao the ECI bureau and protest,” Mr. Banerjee said. He said the ECI officials should apologise to the radical of West Bengal if they bash not people the database of “infiltrators” and “logical discrepancies” for instilling unnecessary fearfulness successful the people.
Protests from January 2
The MP said the enactment volition instrumentality to the streets successful West Bengal from January 2 and take these pressing issues to the radical of the State.
Mr. Banerjee besides raised questions astir wherefore the different States that share borders with Bangladesh person not been made portion of the SIR process, like Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya, and Mizoram to identify and instrumentality retired alleged “Bangladeshi infiltrators” and wherefore West Bengal was singled out.
