Kolkata, Oct. 28 -- All India Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee today slammed the Election Commission of India(ECI) for selectively picking up West Bengal for SIR (Special Intensive Revision) excluding another border state of Assam, which also goes to assembly election next year.
Banerjee said the SIR is a tool being used by the poll panel to satisfy the BJP to exclude the rights of the people and vowed to reduce the saffron brigade to 50 seats during the next year's assembly polls.
"Even after the SIR I challenge the BJP to face an election and bring them down to 50 seats and increase the number for TMC at least one from the present figure," Banerjee said during a media conference.
In the 2021 assembly poll...