Subhechcha Ganguly 
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the Election Commission of India (EC) of improperly deleting 54 lakh names from the state’s draft electoral rolls during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
Banerjee claims that the EC, allegedly sitting in Delhi, used artificial intelligence tools developed by the BJP to identify and remove names, leading to genuine voters being excluded, including women who changed surnames after marriage. Many affected voters were reportedly not informed of the reasons for their deletion, denying them a chance to respond.
She also alleges that a category called “logical discrepancy” was introduced after the fact to justify further deletions, and warns of plans to remove up to one crore more names from the final lists.
In addition, Banerjee has written to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar highlighting procedural flaws and widespread errors caused by AI-driven digitisation of older voter records, which she says has wrongly flagged many legitimate electors.
