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SIR, ECI BJP's tools for silent rigging: TMC MP
The Statesman Siliguri
|August 02, 2025
Raising the opposition against Special Intensive Review (SIR) within the Parliament precincts, the Trinamul Congress MPs are protesting with banners and slogans.
Today too the party MPs were vocal in their united stand against the SIR implementation in Bihar.
TMC MP Ritabrata Banerjee today said that the SIR and the ECI are being used as a double-edged weapon by the BJP to snatch away voting rights. The attempt to carry out identity-based verification and then NRC has already been exposed. Like our national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said, it is "silent invisible rigging" because the BJP can't come to power otherwise, said the TMC leader.
This story is from the August 02, 2025 edition of The Statesman Siliguri.
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