The development coincided two more deaths by suicide in SIR fear in the state. At Uluberia in Howrah, a labourer, Jahir Mal (28), was found hanging dead at home in the morning.

xKolkata :West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP and the Central Election Commission (CEC) of turning the special intensive revision (SIR) of voter lists, Phase-II of which commenced on Tuesday, into a political tool for a “silent, invisible rigging” ahead of the 2026 Assembly polls.

She threatened to topple the BJP at the Centre if a single genuine voter's name got dropped in the SIR, that got underway in the poll-bound state as well as in eight other states and three Union Territories (UTs) on Tuesday.

“After the successful completion of SIR in Bihar, Phase-II of the exercise will cover nea

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