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 move court again to resist the removal of electors 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 will not be able to defeat the TMC by deleting names. We will move court again to resist the exclusion of names," Banerjee said while attacking her principal challenger, the BJP, over the roll revision exercise.
Banerjee had in February argued in the Supreme Court, seeking intervention in the SIR process.
The EC figures, which showed that the total deletion had pushed the number of names removed from the original voter base of 7.66 crore to over 90.83 lakh by October 2025, indicated that the proportion of removal of electors now remained at over 11.85 per cent.
Criticising the poll panel over the SIR process, she also said, "We will fight legally to get the names included on the list as per the Constitution. If people cannot cast their votes, what is the need to frame the tribunal? And then you are saying that the list has been frozen. What is this? We will challenge it and try to understand it."
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 (EC) is working at the behest of the BJP. It is calling people over the telephone to threaten and intimidate them," she claimed.
Later, while speaking at a rally in Balagarh in the same district, Banerjee warned that voting for the BJP would effectively mean "giving up fish, meat, and speaking in Bengali".
"People are allowed to eat eggs, fish, or meat in the BJP-ruled states like Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra. The same will happen here if the BJP comes to power," Banerjee claimed.
