'Threatens electoral process': TMC urges SC to review Special Intensive Revision in Bihar

New Delhi: Trinamool Congress on Saturday demanded that the Supreme Court should "urgently" review the "politically motivated" Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar.

While its Rajya Sabha floor leader described the Election Commission as "Extremely Compromised (EC)", Trinamool Congress said on 'X' that the party is strongly opposing the SIR exercise in Bihar.

"As (West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool head) Mamata Official has rightly pointed out, this NRC-like move threatens the integrity of our electoral process and risks disenfranchising millions," it said.

While reiterating its demand for treating 2024 be treated as the base year and not 2003, it also said, "the Supreme Court (should) urgently review this politically motivated exercise."

A five-member Trinamool delegation on July 1 had demanded that 2024 should be used as the base year for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal where Assembly elections are due next year. In the ongoing Bihar SIR, the EC has taken the 2003 Bihar rolls prepared after an intensive revision as the base year.

Trinamool had earlier equated the SIR in Bihar and later in other states, including West Bengal, to the issuance of "ancestor pass" (Ahnenpass) in Nazi Germany, while alleging that the exercise by the BJP through Election Commission is aimed at snatching citizen's right to vote.