India, Nov. 10 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of attempting to impose a "super emergency" in the state and held the Election Commission of India (ECI) responsible for the deaths of at least 14 citizens during the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, ordered on October 27.

"This is an attempt to clamp a super emergency. Fourteen citizens have died out of fear. Some of them have died by suicide. But not a single condolence message has come from the ECI. The assembly elections will be declared in February. The SIR exercise cannot be completed in such a short time. You are doing this only to stop our government from working for three months," Banerjee s...