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Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that a commandant posted at Fort William us working for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters list in West Bengal and also for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
“I have information that a commandant sitting in Fort William is working for SIR (SIR West Bengal) and also for the BJP," Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said at a press conference in Kolkata.
While launching a scathing attack on the central agency and the BJP, she expressed her anger and concerns over various issues, including border security and role of central agencies to SIR. “From coal to hawala—who controls the border? Who controls Customs? Who controls the CISF? Who is coming in on planes from outside? The central government oversees all of this. The army is also under your control,” she added.
Hitting out at the EC, she added, “The EC, while sitting in Delhi, used AI tools devised by the BJP to delete names. These AI software accounted for the names mismatch in SIR data. They deleted the names of women who changed their . They have also 'killed' many voters across the state who are still living."
The CM further alleged that the "BJP-EC nexus" was planning to remove another one crore names from the final list of voters. “The commission has earmarked another 1.36 crore voters for verification hearings on grounds of logical discrepancy. Eminent personalities like Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, poet Joy Goswami, cricketers Md Shami and Laxmi Ratan Shukla are part of that list. This list was created so that one crore voters could be removed."
