NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has approached the Supreme Courtroom difficult the continued Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls within the poll-bound state, PTI reported on Sunday. Banerjee filed the petition on January 28, naming the Election Fee of India (ECI) and the chief electoral officer of West Bengal as respondents. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo had earlier introduced on January 3 her intention to maneuver the highest courtroom towards the train.The petition is but to be listed for listening to. The Supreme Courtroom is already seized of a number of petitions associated to the SIR, together with these filed by TMC MPs. Earlier, Banerjee had written to chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, urging him to halt what she described as an “arbitrary and flawed” revision of electoral rolls within the state, the place meeting elections are anticipated in April–Could.Escalating her criticism of the ECI, she warned that persevering with the SIR in its current kind might result in “mass disenfranchisement” and undermine the “foundations of democracy.” In a strongly worded letter dated January 3, Banerjee accused the ballot physique of conducting an “unplanned, ill-prepared and advert hoc” course of riddled with “severe irregularities, procedural violations, and administrative lapses.”
