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Abhishek takes on CEC, poll panel asks TMC to not threaten officials
The New Indian Express Chennai
|January 01, 2026
Won't accept list if discrepancies found: TMC; Bengal asked to release hiked pay for BLOs
TRINAMOOL Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday said the Election Commission (EC) has failed to address their concerns on the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal and that the party “will not accept” the final voter list if it has “discrepancies”.
“We will fight it legally,” he told the media after a 10-member TMC delegation met the full bench of the EC over the SIR. Banerjee alleged that “vote theft” in elections is happening through the voter list and not through EVMs, and stressed that states like Maharashtra, Haryana and Bihar could have been won by opposition parties if they had aggressively raised the issue.
This story is from the January 01, 2026 edition of The New Indian Express Chennai.
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