India, Jan. 23 -- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday claimed that at least 110 people have died because of stress and panic over the SIR exercise in the State so far.

Inaugurating the 49th International Kolkata Book Fair here, she said her 162nd book, a compilation of 26 poems on the agony faced by people due to the SIR exercise, will come out in this edition of the fair.

Scores of people, including elderly ones, have to line up at Special Intensive Revision (SIR) camps for hearing, and wait for five-six hours in the open every day, Banerjee said.

"Citing logical discrepancies, they (EC) are picking up issues like surnames of Bengalis which had been known and accepted for years," the chief minister said.

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