KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged on Tuesday that the App used by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state was designed by the Information Technology Cell of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
“The entire SIR process is full of errors. Often, voters who are alive are shown as deceased. The elderly citizens and seriously ill persons are being unnecessarily summoned for a hearing. The App that the Commission is using in the SIR exercise has been designed by the BJP’s information technology cell. This is illegal, unconstitutional, and undemocratic, ” the Chief Minister said while interacting with the media persons at Sagar Islands in South 24 Parganas.
The Chief Minister has been extremely vocal against the ECI on the SIR issue. On Sunday, she wrote a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, raising several objections to the SIR exercise.
On Monday, she said that she will personally plead at the Supreme Court (SC) against the ongoing SIR, highlighting the "plight" of the people because of the exercise being conducted in an "unplanned" manner.