SIR: Mamata to move court

Banerjee intensifies her attack against the Election Commission, alleging that it used opaque digital processes, including artificial intelligence and informal platforms, to arbitrarily delete names from electoral rolls, undermining democratic safeguards

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Exacerbating an already bitter confrontation ahead of the Assembly elections, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday announced that she would move court against the SIR of electoral rolls in West Bengal, alleging that the exercise has triggered fear, harassment, and administrative arbitrariness, leading to deaths, hospitalisations, and suicide attempts.

What began as a technical exercise to cleanse electoral rolls, the Special Intensive Revision has snowballed into one of West Bengal’s fiercest political confrontations in recent years, with the ruling TMC and the opposition BJP in the state locked in verbal battle over allegations of voter manipulation ahead of the high-stakes assembly polls, scheduled to be held in the next three months.