Bengal

XKolkata: A day after Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took to social media with a stark warning and urged that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) must be halted as 28 lives were lost due to the anxiety and excessive workload associated with it, she intensified her demand on Thursday by writing to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar.

In her letter, Banerjee alleged that the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls is being forced upon government officials and voters in an “unplanned and coercive manner”, creating an atmosphere of fear and distress.

Urging the CEC to intervene without delay, she demanded an immediate halt to the process and a “thorough reassessment of the present methodology and timelines”.

Banerjee wrote that she had repeatedly raised concerns about the

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