Kolkata, Nov 20, 2025

The BJP on Thursday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of resorting to “theatrics” over the Election Commission’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, alleging that she is trying to prevent the deletion of names of illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators from the state’s electoral rolls.

The allegation came after the Chief Minister wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar earlier in the day, demanding an immediate halt to the revision process.

BJP’s Information Technology Cell Chief and the party’s central observer for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, issued a social media statement soon after the Chief Minister wrote to the CEC. Malviya claimed that Mamata Banerjee’s fear about SIR is because the successive mandates in her favour rest he

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