On a day, the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal assured that no names of legitimate voters will be deleted in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, set to begin from November 4, TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the Election Commission (EC) and the BJP, calling the exercise a politically motivated “ploy” to exclude genuine voters ahead of the 2026 Assembly polls.

The Diamond Harbour MP, who is considered number two in the TMC, accused the EC of acting under political pressure and called the SIR “Silent Invisible Rigging” by the BJP .

Accusing the EC of turning into an “agency of the BJP”, he said, “…I am warning them, as a parliamentarian, that sooner or later the government will change. The BJP and (Union Home Ministe

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