The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has already started in West Bengal. Now, the West Bengal Congress has approached the Supreme Court against the SIR process for the voter list.

Multiple states, such as Tamil Nadu, Kerala and West Bengal, have opposed SIR. Gujarat civil society activists have also approached the apex court against the process. Among political parties, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Congress, Trinamool Congress (TMC), CPI(M) and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) have also opposed the electoral move.

“In Bihar, we saw that 44 lakh names were removed. We don’t believe the names were removed properly. When the form arrived in Bengal , it had to be modified. We also want to know why the 2002 voter list is being used as the base for SIR. Why not use any

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