Hundreds of people from rights and civil society groups protested on Saturday against what they alleged is a plan to introduce the National Register of Citizens (NRC) through Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal ahead of the 2026 Assembly election.

The rally from College Square to Esplanade was called by left-leaning civil society groups, including APDR, No NRC Movement, Sangrami Shramik Manch, among others.

Speaking on behalf of the organisers, Ranjit Sur said, “While we support an error-free voter list, we have a hunch that despite updating the rolls multiple times, the current move to undertake SIR is aimed at collecting data that could be used to roll out NRC. This goes against the spirit of the Indian justice system, and the Election Commission has no r

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