‘Why no SIR in Assam?’: At SC hearing, Mamata Banerjee alleges West Bengal being targeted
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that her state was being “targeted” through the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls, and questioned why the process was not being carried out in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Assam, Live Law reported.
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The Election Commission is conducting a special revision of the voter list in Assam, which is similar to the usual updates to the electoral roll.
On Wednesday, the Trinamool Congress chief appeared in person before the court to argue her petition challenging the special intensive revision being conducted by the Election Commission.
This is the first time a chief minister has personally appeared before the Supreme Court to make verbal submissions, according to Live Law.
Banerjee had moved an interlocutory application seeking permission to appear and argue the case herself, Bar and Bench reported.
The bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul Pancholi was hearing a petition filed by the chief minister raising concerns that the voter list revision exercise poses an immediate and irreversible risk of mass disenfranchisement of eligible voters in the Assembly elections, Bar and Bench reported.
She has sought the court’s direction that the polls be conducted on the basis of the existing electoral rolls prepared last year.
The state polls are expected to be held by April or May.
On Wednesday, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted that there was an “atmosphere of hostility” in the...