A senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader will argue that the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) current “Special Intensive Revision” (SIR) in West Bengal is wrong. The hearing in the Supreme Court is scheduled for later this month.
Kalyan Banerjee, a four‑time TMC Member of Parliament and a senior Calcutta High Court advocate, told reporters on Wednesday that the ECI’s use of the 2002 voters list as the basis for the SIR is unacceptable. “After the 2008 delimitation, the shape of Lok Sabha and Assembly seats changed dramatically,” Banerjee said. “Many constituencies that existed in 2002 are now gone, and new ones were created. It makes no sense to base the revision on constituencies that no longer exist.”
The second issue Banerjee will raise is the removal of voters’ names or asking them for new applications just because the ECI decided to delete them from the rolls, even though some voters had already cast their ballots in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
In its petition, the TMC seeks a stay on the ongoing SIR. “While it may be hard to stop a constitutional body like the ECI, the Supreme Court can give important guidance on how the revision should be carried out,” Banerjee said.
The ECI had set a new deadline of November 14 to finish distributing election forms in the state. The earlier deadline of November 11 had already passed, and about 15% of voters still had not received the forms.
These arguments will come before the apex court as the election commission pushes ahead with the revision of West Bengal’s voter rolls.
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