India, Feb. 4 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee may become the first sitting chief minister to personally argue her own case before the Supreme Court, if permitted, when her petition challenging the Election Commission of India (ECI)'s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral roll comes up for hearing on Wednesday.

Her petition, which will be heard amid a batch of challenges already filed by her Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders against the SIR process, seeks the complete dismantling of the revision exercise in West Bengal and urges that the 2026 assembly elections be conducted strictly based on the existing 2025 voter list.

The move significantly escalates Banerjee's confrontation with the poll panel, as she maintains t...