Kolkata: Rights groups including Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) on Saturday held a protest rally against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls planned in West Bengal by the Election Commission of India (ECI).

As the poll panel is gearing up to conduct SIR of Bengal’s voter list, the rights body claimed that National Register of Citizens (NRC) will be carried out in the name of SIR.

To mark their protest, members of the rights group took out the rally from College Street in north Kolkata to Dorina Crossing in central Kolkata.

APDR alleged that a conspiracy is going on to take away the voting rights and citizenship of many people through this process.

General Secretary of APDR, Ranjit Sur said, “In the name of creating the voter list under SIR,

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