New Delhi, June 26 -- West Bengal chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Thursday lashed out at the Election Commission of India, accusing it of trying to implement the contentious NRC through 'backdoors' for seeking documentary evidence of citizenships from some people.

The CM said that the EC was isolating voters born between July 1987 and December 2004 and seeking their citizenship documents in the name of 'special intensive revision of electoral rolls'.

She alleged that the electoral body was behaving like a 'stooge of the BJP', asking if it was trying to implement the NRC through backdoor.

"I have received two letters from the ECI, each comprising 25-30 pages. I haven't been able to go through them in detail so far. But...