Mamata to Begin Sit-in on Friday Against Voter Roll Deletions Ahead of Bengal Polls
TMC alleges 63.66 lakh voter deletions disproportionately affect minorities and marginalized groups, with over 60 lakh electors under legal scrutiny, ahead of state elections.
- On March 6, 2026, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will start a sit-in at the Esplanade Metro Channel to protest alleged arbitrary deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls, announced by TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.
- Since the SIR began in November last year, official data released on February 28 show 60.06 lakh names were deleted, reducing the voter base from about 7.66 crore to just over 7.04 crore.
- The adjudication process, affecting over 60.06 lakh electors, could alter constituency calculations as legal scrutiny in the coming weeks decides their eligibility.
- The sit-in intensifies confrontation with the Election Commission just ahead of its planned state visit, coming two days before the proposed visit of the full bench of the Election Commission.
- TMC leaders say the roll revisions are politically motivated and risk disenfranchising voters, while Abhishek Banerjee alleged the `target of deleting over one crore voters was decided even before the exercise began` and condemned the Special Intensive Revision.
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Mamata Banerjee Launches Protest Against Bengal Voter Roll Deletions
In a dramatic return to the street politics that once defined her rise, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday launched a dharna in central Kolkata against large-scale deletions in the state's voter rolls.
Mamata begins sit-in protest against voter roll deletions in Bengal
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday, March 6, began a sit-in here to protest against the alleged arbitrary deletions from the post-SIR electoral rolls, escalating the Trinamool Congress’s confrontation with the Election Commission ahead of the state assembly polls. Launching the dharna at Kolkata’s Esplanade Metro Channel, Banerjee accused the BJP and the Election Commission of conspiring to “disenfranchise Bengali vote…
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