New Delhi: Former Member of Parliament from West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress and retired bureaucrat Jawhar Sircar has stressed the removal of duplicate, dead, missing, and fake voters’ names from the state’s electoral rolls, claiming that the number could be anything between 70 lakh and 1.25 crore.

The known Trinamool-baiter was responding to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asking the Election Commission to immediately cease its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electors’ roll.

Speaking to the media on Monday in Siliguri on an administrative visit, CM Mamata Banerjee announced that she would continue to stand by the state’s voters to “protect their rights”, even at the cost of her “throat being slashed” for voicing protest against the exercise.

Urging that no genuine voter’s

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