Overview
- Banerjee wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on January 10, her fourth letter since November opposing the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
- She alleges the exercise prioritises deletion and exclusion of voters over correction or inclusion, calling the Commission's approach politically biased and high-handed.
- Her letter cites claims of backend deletions through IT systems without due process or approval from Electoral Registration Officers, raising questions about legal authority.
- She criticises centralised hearings that summon voters without specific reasons, forcing long travel and burdening elderly and infirm citizens, while migrants are not uniformly allowed representation by authorised family members.
- Banerjee also flags inadequate training of observers and micro-observers, reports of verbal abuse of voters, and security demands during the Gangasagar Mela, as she urges the Commission to curb harassment; no ECI response is reported in these articles.