Kolkata, March 10 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was seen on Tuesday symbolically drawing "SIR" and "Vanish" on a piece of paper during the fifth day of her protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, to express her opposition to the alleged deletion of voters.
At the protest stage at Metro Channel in central Kolkata, Banerjee was seen drawing with colored markers on a green board placed on a stand. On top of the drawing board, she wrote "SIR", while in the middle she wrote the word "Vanish" in white.
She then drew several small, irregular circles and a larger outline resembling a map, and gradually whitewashed parts of the green board with white color, apparently symbolizing the erasure of voters from the rolls.
Banerjee was seen drawing while the CEC was holding a press conference.
Banerjee has been staging the protest since March 6, alleging that the SIR conducted by the Election Commission of India has led to widespread deletion of genuine voters in the state ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections.
Over the past few days, the Trinamool Congress supremo has repeatedly accused the Election Commission of "dancing to the tune of the BJP" and attempting to disenfranchise legitimate voters in West Bengal.