Won’t allow Assembly polls if SIR is obstructed in WB, says State BJP president

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File representation   of West Bengal BJP President Samik Bhattacharya

File representation of West Bengal BJP President Samik Bhattacharya

Accusing the Trinamool Congress of obstructing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) successful West Bengal, BJP president Samik Bhattacharya connected Tuesday said the BJP would not let the Assembly elections if the revision of electoral rolls is not held properly.

Mr. Bhattacharya pointed retired that BJP workers had carried retired thorough booth-level scrutiny to place residents and non-residents to ascertain the accuracy of the published rolls, but Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and their deputies (AEROs) were refusing to judge their objections raised done the EC’s Form 7 successful antithetic parts of the State.

“If the SIR process ends successful West Bengal successful this manner, we volition not let elections to instrumentality spot here. Make the SIR process creaseless - this is our request to the Election Commission (EC),” the authorities BJP president said.

The BJP person said that enactment workers had held protests astatine assorted places successful the State aft the officials refused to judge the objection forms by the party.

“Till now, the ruling enactment has opposed SIR. How tin the BLOs accidental they volition not judge Form 7 and to capable up Form 6 online? It is the work of the Election Commission to clasp SIR successful a escaped and just process,” helium said.

Mr. Bhattacharya said that the enactment had repeatedly urged Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to sojourn West Bengal to measure the crushed situation. He argued that erstwhile the process of SIR had started determination were threats connected the BLOs (Booth Level Officers) and present erstwhile the process is held nether ECI however tin BLOs garbage to judge forms.

Before the commencement of SIR, the BJP leadership, including Samik Bhattacharya, had said that they would not let Assembly polls if the process is not held successful the State. About 58 lakh names person been deleted during the archetypal signifier of SI,R and successful the 2nd signifier of the workout the ECI is looking astatine astir 1.26 crore logical discrepancies.

 Trinamool Congress enactment including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has opposed SIR and Ms. Banerjee had written 5 letters to CEC Gyanesh Kumar raising objections to assorted issues relating to SIR.

Published - January 14, 2026 04:50 americium IST

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