Kolkata, April 8 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday criticized the BJP and the Election Commission over the deletion of voters' names during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and said her party would file another petition in court to resist the removal of voters from the electoral rolls.
Her comments came after nearly 91 lakh voters' names were deleted from the electoral rolls following the completion of the SIR exercise in the state.
"You cannot defeat the TMC by deleting names. We will file another petition in court to resist the exclusion of names," Banerjee said while attacking her main opponent, the BJP, over the electoral roll revision exercise.
Banerjee had argued in the Supreme Court in February, seeking intervention in the SIR process.
The EC figures, which showed that over 90.83 lakh names had been deleted from the original voter base of 7.66 crore by October 2025, indicated that the proportion of removal of electors now remains at over 11.85 per cent.
Addressing a poll rally at Arambagh in the Hooghly district, the TMC supremo accused the saffron party of trying to manipulate the electoral rolls and offering money to woo voters.
Banerjee also charged the Election Commission with intimidating people over the phone.
"It (the EC) is working at the behest of the BJP. It is calling people over the telephone to threaten and intimidate them," she claimed.
