Kolkata, Nov 10 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday dubbed the ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls as "votebandi", and asserted that she would protect the rights of voters at any cost, even if it meant her “throat getting slashed” for protesting against the exercise.

Urging the Election Commission to immediately stop the SIR, she asserted that unless the exercise was executed flawlessly with every genuine voter finding a place in the final rolls, its implementation in Bengal would not be as easy as it was in Bihar.

"I remember when Mr Seshan was election commissioner, he said the EC is for the people, not the government. I am sorry to see its current leaders only yapping 'yes sir' and 'yes sir'. You could do this (SIR) in Bihar because you could g

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