Overview
- Mamata Banerjee alleged the Special Intensive Revision targets minorities, tribals and Bengali-speaking communities, citing about 90,000 proposed deletions in Malda and inconsistent rejection of Aadhaar, Madhyamik and domicile documents.
- Abhishek Banerjee claimed the exercise could omit over one crore Bengali-speaking voters and produced people he said were wrongly listed as deceased.
- The Election Commission extended SIR hearings by three days to January 19, and the TMC said its workers will remain outside ERO and AERO offices to contest alleged wrongful removals.
- The Supreme Court stayed West Bengal Police FIRs against Enforcement Directorate officials over recent searches and issued notices to the chief minister and senior police officers.
- Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP and a central agency of provoking unrest tied to a migrant worker’s death in Beldanga, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to visit West Bengal this weekend for project launches.