West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar once again, this time regarding the inclusion of new voters using Form 6 amidst the deletion of names and adjudication cases in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process.
“BJP agents have been caught red-handed flooding the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer(CEO), West Bengal, with thousands of fraudulent Form 6 applications to smuggle non-residents and outsiders into Bengal’s electoral rolls. This is an attempt at voter hijacking, the same dirty game, the BJP successfully played in Maharashtra and Delhi,” Banerjee wrote on social media.
In her letter to the Election Commission, the Trinamool Congress supremo alleged that the actions of the poll body were undermining the democratic and fundamental rights of the people.
“This is not the standard expected of a constitutional authority. The people have a right to transparency and to the protection of their voting rights," she said.
The chief minister mentioned the Supreme Court order of February 20, directing judicial officers to clear cases of logical discrepancies under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), as 60 lakh cases are under adjudication, and proceedings for these cases are still ongoing.
“When such adjudication is in progress, the CEO has reportedly received nearly 30,000 applications under Form 6 for inclusion in the voter list. We reasonably apprehend that all these applications under Form 6 would be allowed by the Election Commission without giving appropriate notice in the concerned booths and to the political parties,” Banerjee stated as she called the move illegal and beyond the scope of the SC.
“Therefore, we request you not to entertain any such applications for inclusion after the publication of the Electoral Roll on 28.02.2026,” she said.
On Monday, Banerjee's nephew and TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee met CEO Manoj Agarwal over the same issue. “The questions that we raised had no convincing answers. He avoided the demands repeatedly. The CEO cannot individually submit Form 6s,” said Abhishek.
The Diamond Harbour MP further challenged the EC to make public the names of those who have submitted Form 6s and release CCTV footage.
