West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday dubbed the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as “votebandi”, and urged the Election Commission to immediately stop the exercise.

Banerjee said she was unable to fathom the “hurry” to conduct the SIR just before elections.

“The BJP-led central government is harassing people in the name of SIR. Just like demonetisation was ‘notebandi', SIR is ‘votebandi'. It is another form of super emergency,” she told reporters in Siliguri.

“I do not understand the hurry in conducting SIR just before elections. The EC must immediately stop this exercise. The revision of electoral rolls cannot be completed in two or three months. It is being carried out forcibly,” the CM alleged.

Banerjee asserted that the BJP can send her to

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