West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has moved the Supreme Court challenging the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state. She has made the Election Commission of India and the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal as parties in the case. The Supreme Court is already hearing a bunch of petitions on the SIR issue. Banerjee had earlier written to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) urging him to halt the "arbitrary and flawed" SIR in the poll-bound state. Sharpening her attack on the Election Commission, Banerjee had warned that continuation of the SIR in the present form could trigger "mass disenfranchisement" and "strike at the foundations of democracy".

Source: The Telegraph February 01, 2026 18:00 UTC