India, Jan. 10 -- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alleging that the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state is being carried out with the sole objective of deleting and excluding names of existing voters, rather than correcting errors or including new voters.

In her letter, the Chief Minister has clarified that her observation in the matter is because of the manner in which the Commission had been categorizing voters under the "logical discrepancy" category and summoning them for hearings on claims and objections on the draft voters list, causing inconvenience and harassment for genuine and innocent voters.

"The objective seems neither...