Mamata continues sit-in for second successive day over Bengal voter roll deletions
Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal Chief Minister, continued her protest against alleged voter deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls for a second consecutive day. She spent the night at the sit-in site in Kolkata, surrounded by senior Trinamool Congress leaders and party workers. Banerjee claims that large numbers of genuine voters are being removed from the rolls and alleges that many have been wrongly marked as dead. The protest comes ahead of a full bench visit from the Election Commission to West Bengal.
10 MAR 2026
— The Hindu
The Supreme Court established special tribunals to hear appeals from voters excluded during the West Bengal Special Intensive Revision process.
15 MAR 2026
— The Hindu
The Trinamool Congress will leverage Bengali sub-nationalism and the Matua community's anxieties to solidify its position as the defender of Bengali identity and electoral inclusion.
— The Hindu
The BJP leader Madhav argues that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is a transparent process aimed at reconciling voter lists, despite opposition party concerns.
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