New Delhi/IBNS, Jan. 19 -- The Supreme Court's intervention in the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process has handed West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress a major political boost ahead of the 2026 Assembly polls.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Dipankar Datta and Joymalya Bagchi ordered the Election Commission to publish the list of voters who had received notices under this category.

The court noted that nearly 1.25 crore people had been served such notices, a move that had drawn sharp criticism from the TMC, which alleged that the SIR exercise was being used to disenfranchise genuine voters in the poll-bound state.

In relief for the affected voters, the bench ruled that those who rec...