'SIR Vanish': Mamata takes jibe at Centre, poll body over voter name deletions amid ongoing stir

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took her protests against SIR on a separate level on Tuesday when the TMC chief took to 'painting' the word 'SIR' and 'Vanish' on canvas.

Banerjee was at the fifth day of her protest against Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to convey her opposition to the alleged deletion of voters.

At the dharna stage in central Kolkata, Banerjee drew with colours on a green board placed on a stand. On the top of the drawing board, she wrote "SIR", while in the middle she wrote the word "Vanish" in white.

The CM also drew several small irregular circles and then something like a map and later went on to whitewash parts of the green board, symbolising voters being erased from the electoral rolls.

The CM was seen drawing when the CEC was holding a press conference.

Banerjee has been staging the protest since March 6 and said that the SIR conducted by the poll body has led to large-scale deletion of genuine voters in Bengal ahead of the Assembly elections.

Banerjee had on Monday accused CEC Gyanesh Kumar of threatening state officials during a meeting, and warned that "false bravado" by constitutional authorities was not acceptable.