India, Dec. 31 -- A 10-member Trinamool Congress (TMC) delegation led by party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee met Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi on Tuesday, alleging large-scale manipulation of electoral rolls during the ongoing voter re-verification drive in West Bengal.

The meeting comes amid a sharp political standoff between the Trinamool-led Bengal government and the BJP-led Centre, with the Assembly elections just months away.

The TMC has accused the Election Commission of using what it described as "opaque, software-driven mechanisms" to selectively delete, reclassify and flag voters.

"Vote chori is not happening in EVMs. It is happening in electoral rolls," he said.

In its submission...