KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Monday wrote to CEC Gyanesh Kumar for the 2d time in forty eight hours, alleging that EC used to be now not issuing appropriate acknowledgments of documents submitted for the length of SIR hearings and used to be as a alternative marking them “not found” to disenfranchise staunch voters, studies Debashis Konar. She said, “The non-issuance of documentary acknowledgment deprives electors of proof of submission and places them at the mercy of internal record-keeping deficiencies… This defeats the very objective of SIR, which is intended to strengthen and purify the electoral roll.” After the 2002 SIR of the electoral roll, voters utilized for changes in names and addresses, which own been ratified by EC and included in 2025 pollrolls, Mamata said.
“EC is now disregarding its own statutory processes followed consistently over two decades and compelling electors to once again establish their identity and eligibility,” she wrote. Mamata said that over 23 years, many electors submitted Make 8 with official govt-issued documents and, after quasi-judicial hearings, their particulars were corrected. “Why should process revert to 2002? Does this imply all revisions were illegal?” she asked, calling the pass arbitrary.
