‘SIR is votebandi’: Mamata slams EC, BJP over voter roll revision; questions ‘hurry’

NEW DELHI: West Bengal main curate Mamata Banerjee connected Monday accused the Election Commission (EC) of rushing done the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, terming the workout “votebandi” and demanding its contiguous suspension.Speaking to reporters successful Siliguri, Banerjee likened the elector rotation revision to demonetisation, alleging that the process was being conducted successful haste up of elections.“The BJP-led cardinal authorities is harassing radical successful the sanction of SIR. Just similar demonetisation was ‘notebandi’, SIR is ‘votebandi’. It is different signifier of ace emergency,” she said. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) main questioned the timing of the revision and claimed the EC could not implicit the process “in 2 oregon 3 months”. “I bash not recognize the hurry successful conducting SIR conscionable earlier elections. The EC indispensable instantly halt this exercise. The revision of electoral rolls cannot beryllium completed successful 2 oregon 3 months. It is being carried retired forcibly,” she alleged. Banerjee besides said she was consenting to look immoderate consequences for speaking retired against the move. “The BJP tin nonstop maine to jailhouse oregon adjacent chopped my pharynx for speaking retired against SIR, but bash not curb the voting rights of people,” she asserted.

During the interaction, the main curate besides renewed her disapproval of the goods and services taxation (GST), calling it a “blunder” that should beryllium rolled back. “The cardinal authorities is looting radical successful the sanction of GST,” Banerjee alleged. The EC’s peculiar intensive revision aims to update elector rolls earlier the upcoming elections, but absorption parties, including TMC, person questioned some its timing and intent.