New Delhi, Feb. 4 -- In a dramatic courtroom moment on Wednesday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee personally addressed the Supreme Court, alleging that her State was being "selectively targeted" through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls ahead of elections.
The Supreme Court subsequently issued notice to the Election Commission of India (ECI) on her writ petition challenging the SIR process in West Bengal and asked the poll panel to reply by Monday.
A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant took up Banerjee's plea against the ECI, which alleges that the ongoing SIR exercise would result in "large-scale disenfranchisement" due to what she termed as an opaque, hurried, unconstitutional, and illegal pro...