West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has moved the Supreme Court against the Election Commission, questioning the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in the state. She has alleged legal violations, public hardship, and serious humanitarian concerns during the SIR process.
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has approached the Supreme Court of India challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls that is currently being conducted in the state by the Election Commission of India.
Banerjee has filed a writ petition before the Supreme Court, naming the Election Commission of India and the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal as respondents in the case. Through the petition, she has questioned the legality and manner in which the SIR process is being carried out in West Bengal. The petition was filed on January 28.
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Apart from moving the Supreme Court, the West Bengal Chief Minister has once again written a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, raising serious objections to the methods adopted during the ongoing revision of the voters’ list.
This is not the first time Banerjee has raised concerns over the issue, as she referred to her earlier communications while reiterating her objections.
In her letter, Banerjee claimed that the SIR exercise has caused severe hardship to the public across the state. According to her, the process has led to “immense inconvenience and agony to the people”, and has allegedly resulted in “as many as 140 deaths” during the course of the revision exercise.
She further accused the Election Commission of imposing the SIR in “blatant violation” of the Act and Rules currently in force, and alleged that the exercise is being conducted in
“total disregard of human rights and basic humanitarian considerations”.
“I am again constrained to write to you regarding the methodology and approach, beyond the provisions of the Representation of the People Act and the Rules framed thereunder, being followed in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in West Bengal,”
the Trinamool Congress chief said.
Banerjee also pointed out that, according to her, the Election Commission has for the first time in India’s electoral history deployed around 8,100 micro observers in West Bengal during the SIR process. She alleged that these micro observers are being engaged unilaterally and without proper training or proven expertise.
The Chief Minister described the revision exercise as a specialised, sensitive and quasi-judicial process, and claimed that such large-scale deployment without adequate safeguards raises serious legal and constitutional concerns.
The matter is now before the Supreme Court, where the Chief Minister has sought judicial intervention against what she has described as an unlawful and inhumane electoral exercise.
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