SIR exercise arbitrary, only aims to delete voters: Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee

Key Points

1. Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee criticized the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls on December 9, 2025.
2. Banerjee claimed the SIR exercise focuses on deleting voters rather than authenticating them.
3. He questioned the logic of removing voters whose names were present in the 2024 voter list but not in 2002.
4. Banerjee criticized the ECI's approach to delimitation and the use of digital applications for verifying family relationships.
5. He alleged that excessive workload for Booth Level Officers (BLOs) in West Bengal led to multiple deaths and health issues.
6. Banerjee cited figures of deaths and health issues among BLOs in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.