Last Updated:January 10, 2026, 19:14 IST Mamata Banerjee said ordinary voters were being subjected to coercive hearings over minor issues such as spelling errors or small age discrepancies. In her letter, Banerjee accused the Election Commission of political bias and high-handedness during the exercise. (File) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Saturday and claimed that the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the poll-bound state has been turned into an exercise aimed at excluding voters rather than correcting records. In a three-page letter, the Chief Minister accused the Election Commission of political bias and high-handedness, claiming that the process lacked sensitivity and had caused widespread harassment of ordinary voters. “The hearing process has become largely mechanical, driven purely by technical data and is completely devoid of the application of mind, sensitivity and human touch,” Banerjee wrote, adding that the objective of the exercise appeared to be “neither of correction nor of inclusion… but solely of deletion and of exclusion.” She also expressed …