New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- Union Minister of State for Education and BJP MP Sukanta Majumdar backed the notice to economist Amartya Sen during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, asking if Nobel laureates are above the law.

The Chief Electoral Office of West Bengal had earlier clarified that the notice to the Nobel laureate was issued after the Electoral Roll Officers' Network (ERONET) portal flagged a "logical discrepancy". The West Bengal CEO said that the age difference between Professor Sen, who is a voter in the Bolpur assembly constituency in West Bengal's Birbhum, and his mother, Amita Sen, was less than 15 years.

In an interview with ANI, Majumdar also said that the Election Commission should have ...