Trinamool Congress is planning to move a motion against the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) during the West Bengal Assembly’s Winter Session. The session, likely to begin in the third or fourth week of November, could become a key platform for the party to voice its concerns about the SIR process.
A Trinamool lawmaker, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the party’s state assembly team is ready to bring the motion to the floor. “The way ECI has launched the SIR in West Bengal has left many people panicked. We’ve seen suicides and suicide attempts linked to the list changes,” the lawmaker explained. “Because of this distress, the party wants to officially record its objections with a motion in the coming Winter Session.”
On the first day of the SIR’s first stage, Trinamool Congress staged a large rally in Kolkata. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool general secretary Abhishek Banerjee warned that mass protests could erupt if any legitimate voter’s name were removed from the state’s voter list. The party continues to see the SIR as a BJP and Union‑government move aimed at undermining the National Register of Citizens in West Bengal.
BJP officials countered that Trinamool’s opposition stems from a fear that the SIR might delete names of “dedicated vote banks” such as Bangladeshi and Rohingya immigrants. In the first stage of the SIR, booth‑level officers visit voters’ homes with enumeration forms, a process that has already sparked widespread concern among residents.
Source: ianslive
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