India, Jan. 21 -- The All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday intensified its attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI), alleging that the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls had turned into a "software-intensive rigging exercise" aimed at disenfranchising genuine voters, with West Bengal as its primary target.

Addressing a press conference in the national Capital, TMC MPs Derek O'Brien, Sagarika Ghose and Saket Gokhale said the revision process was being conducted in a non-transparent, hurried and insensitive manner, causing widespread hardship to voters across rural and urban areas.

"People are running from pillar to post. The elderly, villagers, daily-wage workers - everyone is facing difficulties...