India, Jan. 14 -- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged on Tuesday that the 54 lakh names, which were deleted from the draft rolls during the SIR in the state, were done unilaterally by the Election Commission, which "misused" the powers of electoral registration officers (EROs) to get the job done.

Banerjee alleged that a bulk of the deleted voters were "genuine electors", who were not allowed to defend themselves because they weren't even apprised of the grounds of deletion. "The EC, while sitting in Delhi, used AI tools devised by the BJP to delete names. This AI software accounted for the name mismatch in SIR data. They deleted the names of women who changed their surnames post-marriage. They have also 'killed' many vote...