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Is the Election Commission's Neutrality Under Threat in the Ongoing West Bengal SIR Row?

Mamata Banerjee, stepping away from her role as Chief Minister to embrace her roots as a lawyer, delivered an emotionally charged argument in the Supreme Court on Wednesday against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in West Bengal. Dressed in a lawyer's coat over her signature white saree, she appeared before a bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant, branding the Election Commission a "WhatsApp Commission" and alleging that the SIR is being used as a tool for "mass deletion" rather than inclusion. She raised alarms over the exclusion of nearly 63 lakh voters, specifically highlighting how "logical discrepancies"—such as spelling variations in Bengali names or marital surname changes—are being used to disenfranchise genuine citizens. Comparing her struggle to that of a "bonded labourer" fighting for the people, she questioned why Bengal was being "targeted" with such a hurried process while states like Assam were not. The Court, noting the gravity of her submissions, issued a formal notice to the Election Commission and urged for "sensitivity" in the verification process, setting the next hearing for February 9. #MamataBanerjee #SupremeCourt #SIRProcess #SaveDemocracy #HubNews