Will hear Trinamool pleas on victory margins being less than deleted votes in SIR, says Supreme Court

The Supreme Court assured Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee on Monday (May 11, 2026) that it would examine her claims that the lakhs of deletions made during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls “materially affected” results in the recently concluded Assembly election in West Bengal.

This is the first Supreme Court hearing in the West Bengal SIR case after the election, which saw the Bharatiya Janata Party trounce the Trinamool to assume power for the first time. The BJP secured 207 seats in the 294-seat Assembly, while the Trinamool won 80. The State had registered a record voter turnout of above 90% in the election.