West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during a press conference at Banga Bhawan in New Delhi on February 3, 2026 regarding the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
| Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to appear in person on Wednesday (February 4, 2026) before a Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant in a case challenging the legality of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise conducted in the State.
A batch of petitions challenging the constitutionality of the SIR process and the mass exclusion of electors from the voters’ list of the State is listed for hearing on Wednesday (February 4, 2026).
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Ms. Banerjee, currently in the national capital, has been vociferous against the SIR and has also filed a petition in her own individual capacity against the exercise conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI).
A gate pass for entry into the Supreme Court has been made for Wednesday (February 4, 2026), and she is expected to be present in the court room with her lawyers.
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A previous hearing saw the apex court direct the ECI to publish and display in public offices the list of person excluded from the electoral roll due to “logical discrepancies”.
West Bengal’s draft electoral roll for the first phase of the SIR was released on December 16, 2025. Names of over 58 lakh electors of West Bengal have been deleted. Multiple discrepancies were flagged in the electoral rolls, including unusually high young deaths, gender bias in deletions and particular communities facing more deletions than others.
Published – February 03, 2026 11:36 pm IST
