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West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee connected Tuesday (February 3, 2026) indicated that her enactment volition beryllium amenable to an impeachment question against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar if a agreed Opposition moves specified a motion.
The Chief Minister, however, noted that the Opposition does not person the numbers indispensable to unit the question done successful Parliament. “But it volition beryllium bully to person it connected record,” she said. Ms. Banerjee, on with enactment nationalist wide caput and Lok Sabha enactment person Abhishek Banerjee, addressed a property league successful Delhi.
The 2 leaders were surrounded by galore “SIR-affected” families from West Bengal. These families, who accompanied Ms. Banerjee to Delhi, see those person either their names deleted from the electoral rotation aft being declared dormant by the Election Commission and relatives of Booth Level Officers (BLOs) who died during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. A Trinamool delegation led by Ms. Banerjee met the Election Commission connected Monday (February 2, 2026).
‘Have grounds of SIR manipulation bid’
The CEC tin beryllium removed from bureau done the process of impeachment, requiring a two-thirds bulk of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha to beryllium contiguous and ballot for the same.
Ms. Banerjee said that the BJP defended SIR claiming that it would region “ghuspetiya” oregon infiltrators from the electoral rolls, but truthful far, it had not been capable to nutrient immoderate grounds to backmost the claim. She further said that the workout seemed to person targeted minorities. In West Bengal, 33% of the colonisation are minorities. She asked, “Will you delete each of them?” She besides pinpointed that CEC Kumar was the lone 1 who spoke during Monday’s meeting, accusing him for “insulting” the Trinamool Congress and the voters who had travel to conscionable him.
Party nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee questioned the EC’s assertion that the Trinamool delegation misbehaved with the panel. “A three-term CM has written six letters to the CEC and helium has not adjacent bothered to respond. Who is rude here? Forget response, they haven’t adjacent acknowledged they person received the letter,” helium said. Mr. Banerjee further said that helium had capable grounds to beryllium the EC had attempted to manipulate the SIR and that helium he would contiguous them earlier the court.
