TMC Takes SIR Row to Supreme Court After BJP Victory in Bengal Polls: ‘Winning Margin on 31 Seats Less than Deletions’
The bench said it will examine the Election Commission’s objections after TMC files a formal plea, as 35 lakh deletion appeals remain pending.
- The Supreme Court Monday directed the Trinamool Congress to file a separate interlocutory application if it wishes to argue that voter deletions during the Special Intensive Revision materially affected West Bengal Assembly election results.
- Senior Advocate Kalyan Bandopadhyay argued for the Trinamool Congress that in 31 constituencies, the margin of defeat was less than the number of voter deletion cases currently pending before appellate tribunals.
- Highlighting specific data, Bandopadhyay noted that in one constituency, "the margin of loss is 862 votes while 5,432 votes are under adjudication there," demonstrating the scale of pending appeals.
- The CJI stated, "We can only improve the mechanism for adjudication of the appeals," ordering that pending voter deletion cases be decided in a time-bound manner with guidance from the Calcutta High Court Chief Justice.
- ECI Senior Advocate Naidu reported that a tribunal chairperson recently resigned on "personal grounds," while Senior Advocate Menaka Guruswamy cautioned that adjudication could take over four years to complete.
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Will hear Trinamool pleas on victory margins being less than deleted votes in SIR, says Supreme Court
This is the first Supreme Court hearing in the West Bengal SIR case after the election; in as many as 31 seats, the victory margins of the BJP were less than the number of votes deleted during the SIR, Trinamool leaders say
The Supreme Court stated that if the removal of names from the voter list impacted the results in any constituency, the parties concerned could file a new petition. During the hearing, the TMC claimed an impact on several seats.
Supreme Court allows Mamata Banerjee, and other leaders to file fresh plea if victory margin lower than deleted votes
The Supreme Court on Monday said former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and others can file fresh applications on their claim that the victory margins were less than the deletion of votes during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in various Assembly constituencies.
SIR row: Deletion of voters materially affected results in 31 seats, TMC alleges before Supreme Court - The Tribune
Bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi asks Mamata Banerjee, others to file fresh pleas on victory margin being less than deletion of votes
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