Kolkata, Oct 9, 2025
Amid indications that the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s special intensive revision (SIR) in West Bengal will start after October 15, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that she would not tolerate the deletion of names of voters from one particular community in the state following the voter list revision.
She also accused the ECI of unnecessarily hurrying to begin and complete the SIR process in West Bengal at a time when, on one hand, the festive season in West Bengal is and, on the other hand, several people in rain and landslide-hit regions in North Bengal are struggling to come out of the crisis as a result of the natural calamity.
“I will not tolerate it if the names of people from any particular community in the state are deleted from the vo