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Mamata Banerjee Slams CEC as "Vanish Kumar" Over Alleged Voter Deletions in Bengal
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News18•26-09-2026, 17:55
Mamata Banerjee Slams CEC as "Vanish Kumar" Over Alleged Voter Deletions in Bengal
- •Mamata Banerjee accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of orchestrating the deletion of 92 lakh voter names in Bengal through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process.
- •The TMC supremo claims the SIR exercise was a deliberate attempt by the BJP-led central government to seize power in Bengal during the upcoming elections.
- •Banerjee contrasted state welfare schemes like Lakshmir Bhandar with unfulfilled central promises, calling the BJP's "honeymoon period" a "money-moon period."
- •She vowed to expose the alleged conspiracy of mass voter deletions, particularly affecting women, marginalized communities, and rural residents, through legal and political means.
- •The ECI and BJP defend the SIR process as a necessary "cleansing" of electoral rolls to remove duplicate and illegal entries, dismissing Banerjee's claims as an attempt to delegitimize constitutional bodies.
Key Questions Answered
Mamata Banerjee targeted CEC Gyanesh Kumar by calling him “Vanish Kumar” due to the alleged deliberate removal of millions of voter names from West Bengal's electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process.
Mamata Banerjee claimed that over 92 lakh voter names, particularly affecting women, marginalised communities, and rural residents, were arbitrarily erased from the rolls across West Bengal under the guise of correcting logical discrepancies.
The ECI firmly stated that all decisions made during the Special Intensive Revision were executed unanimously following standard statutory checks, multiple physical verifications by booth-level officers, and remained subject to judicial review.
