Mamata Banerjee To Argue Plea Against WB SIR : Live Updates From Supreme Court

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will appear in the Supreme Court today to argue the petition filed by her against the SIR process in West Bengal.

The matter is before a bench led by CJI Surya Kant.

Banerjee has filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court against the Election Commission of India, challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process ongoing in the State.

The petition was filed on January 28, stating that the ongoing process will result in "large-scale disenfranchisement" caused by "the opaque, hasty, unconstitutional and illegal actions of the ECI."

The petitioner has alleged serious irregularities in the classification of individuals under the 'Logical Discrepancy' (LD) category, claiming that the list of such persons has not been uploaded online despite directions of the Court.

Mamata Banerjee has contended that the failure to publish the LD list on the official portal has deprived affected persons of transparency and an effective opportunity to respond. Expressing lack of confidence with the SIR process, Banerjee has sought a direction that the polls be conducted based on the existing rolls prepared last year.

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