Congress leader Prasenjit Bose said that Rahul Gandhi will lead the anti-SIR stir in West Bengal ahead of next year's assembly polls if the Election Commission "repeats the mistakes it made in Bihar" while conducting the exercise.

Mr. Bose, an economist and social activist who recently joined the grand old party, said he expected a political realignment of opposition parties against the BJP if and when the special intensive revision of rolls happens in West Bengal, "presumably after the upcoming festive season".