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Kolkata, Nov 5 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress is considering bringing a resolution against the Special Intensive Review (SIR) of the Election Commission of India during the winter session of the West Bengal Assembly.
Although the exact date of commencement of the winter session of the House has not been decided yet, it is expected to begin in the third or fourth week of November.
“The manner in which the ECI has introduced SIR in West Bengal has created panic among a large section of the people in West Bengal. This panic is evident from the numerous suicides and suicide attempts in the state. In such a situation, the party’s legislative team in the state assembly thinks that a resolution should be tabled in the House during the upcoming winter session to officially record the party’s apprehensions and objections against this exercise. Therefore, the party’s legislative team sent a resolution to the party high command Was.” State cabinet members spoke on condition of anonymity.
On Tuesday, the first day of the first phase of the three-phase SIR, the Trinamool Congress organized a mega rally in Kolkata, from where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee warned of massive mass movements against the ECI if “the name of any genuine voter in the state is removed from the voter list”.
The Trinamool Congress has been opposing the SIR since the beginning, calling it a “ploy by the BJP and the central government to slap the National Register of Citizens in West Bengal”.
However, the BJP claimed that the Trinamool Congress was opposing the SIT due to the “fear” of removing names of its “dedicated vote bank (Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators)” from the voter list.
In the first phase of SIR, booth level officials are reaching the doorsteps of voters with the enumeration forms.
–IANS
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