Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Sunday (January 11, 2026) termed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's allegations over the ongoing SIR in the State as "baseless and exaggerated", and accused her of trying to derail the electoral roll revision exercise for political reasons.
In a post on X, Mr. Adhikari also said he has written to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, and claimed that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls was "exposing the rot in the voter lists — bogus entries, duplicates, and infiltrators that have been nurtured under the TMC's watch for years".
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The BJP leader alleged that the SIR exercise was "damaging the TMC's electoral prospects", and that's why the CM was resorting to hysteria".
Ms. Banerjee had on Saturday (January 10, 2026) written to the CEC, alleging that the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls has been turned into an exercise to exclude voters rather than correct records.
