West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s personal appearance before the Supreme Court on Tuesday drew sharp criticism from the BJP, which dismissed it as a desperate political stunt ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections. While the Trinamool Congress supremo argued her own writ petition challenging the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, BJP leaders termed the move theatrics aimed at masking governance failures.
The hearing before Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi took up Banerjee’s Article 32 petition, along with similar pleas by TMC MPs Derek O’Brien and Dola Sen.
Banerjee sought the quashing of the ECI’s SIR orders issued in June and October 2025, a halt to voter deletions exceeding 58 lakh, and a direction to conduct elections using existing electoral rolls. She alleged bias in the revision process, citing the rejection of Aadhaar as proof, name mismatches due to dialect variations, and the deployment of micro-observers from BJP-ruled States.
