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NEW DELHI: “You are a nominated official, but I americium an elected typical … " The Trinamool Congress’s violative against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has acceptable the signifier for an all-out confrontation implicit the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls up of upcoming assembly elections successful West Bengal.
Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, who led a Trinamool delegation to the
Election Commission
connected Wednesday, accused the CEC of “losing temper” and “raising fingers astatine enactment members. Abhishek dared the CEC to respond to his allegations.
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"They deliberation that by raising their dependable and speaking aggressively, everyone volition beryllium silenced. When we started speaking, helium began losing his temper. He tried to halt immoderate of america and pointed fingers astatine me. I past stated that you are a nominated official, but I americium an elected representative.
You are answerable to your masters, but I americium answerable to the masses who elected me, for whom we person travel present to guarantee that nary morganatic elector is deleted from the list.
.. If helium has the courage, fto him merchandise the footage. I americium lasting precise adjacent to the ECI office," Abhishek said lasting astatine the gross of the Election Commission office."Gyanesh Kumar indispensable beryllium proceeding what I americium saying to the media close now. If helium has the courage, helium should travel down, look the media, and rebut each constituent I americium making, alternatively than making selective leaks aft 8 pm.
What is stopping him? Does helium deliberation the radical of Bengal are his subservient? Apart from two-three questions, helium has failed. Does helium deliberation the radical of Bengal, and we MPs, ministers, and MLAs elected by the people, are bonded labourers oregon slaves?" the Trinamool MP asked, targeting the CEC.Abhishek Banerjee’s excavation connected selective leaks referred to the party’s past gathering with the canvass assemblage connected November 28. The Trinamool person claimed that they had asked the Election Commission 5 questions successful that meeting, but didn't person a azygous precise reply to immoderate of them.
The Trinamool person had accused the Election Commission of selectively leaking accusation to immoderate journalists, claiming that they had answered each question.
In return, the Election Commission accused the Trinamool of intimidating its electoral unit successful the state.The Election Commission (EC) officials said that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) delegation was told that intimidation of immoderate electoral unit by ground-level governmental representatives and workers volition not beryllium tolerated and that the West Bengal authorities should instantly merchandise the enhanced honorarium to each BLO.Draft rolls for West Bengal released by the ECI successful December amusement that 58,20,899 names, astir 7.59 per cent of the electorate, person been provisionally deleted owed to reasons specified arsenic death, imperishable migration oregon untraceability. The Trinamool has raised concerns implicit the standard of deletions, alleging imaginable disenfranchisement. Also, astir 1.36 crore entries person besides been flagged for "logical discrepancies", portion 30 lakh voters were categorised arsenic unmapped – a important percent of whom are apt to beryllium called for verification hearings.
The timeline for last work of electoral rolls successful the authorities is February 14, 2026.Abhishek Banerjee questioned the database of "logical discrepancies" made by the EC and accused the canvass assemblage of weaponsing the elector database to assistance the BJP. The TMC person demanded that the database of voters nether the "logical discrepancy" class beryllium published and the methodology and ineligible authorization utilized to make this class beryllium disclosed. Chief curate Mamata Banerjee has already claimed that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) workout was a immense "scam" being conducted with the assistance of artificial intelligence, and has warned that her enactment volition gherao the Election Commission's bureau successful Delhi if the sanction of adjacent a azygous morganatic elector is deleted from the electoral rolls.Trinamool Congress has said that it volition not judge the last elector database if it has "discrepancies” and if needed “it would combat it legally." Clearly SIR, which is already successful the centre of a governmental storm, is acceptable for a unsmooth thrust successful West Bengal with the Trinamool Congress piling unrelenting unit connected the Election Commission.
