SIR Is Need Of The Hour Else State Will Become West B'desh

HE Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is the need of the hour in West Bengal; otherwise the state will become West Bangladesh," West Bengal BJP chief and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya tells Rajesh Kumar Thakur in an interview.

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HE Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is the need of the hour in West Bengal; otherwise the state will become West Bangladesh," West Bengal BJP chief and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya tells Rajesh Kumar Thakur in an interview. Genuine natives of the state of all castes and religions have "nothing to fear" from the SIR, he assures. Excerpts:

After Bihar, it's perhaps West Bengal's turn to undergo the SIR, ahead of the 2026 Assembly election. Why is it needed there? It is needed to filter illegally enrolled voters—who migrated from other places, mostly from Bangladesh through the porous Indo-Bangladesh border—and address electoral malpractices the ruling Trinamool Congress has carried out for long.