TMC to hold anti-SIR rally in city in Nov first week
The Statesman | 18 October 2025This, the party has planned the protest after the current festive season with Kali Puja, Diwali and Bhai Dooj.
The news was confirmed by Trinamul’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee at a Bijoya Sammelani on Thursday. “The mega anti-SIR rally in Kolkata is likely to be conducted in the first week of November. The party is awaiting the availability of party chairperson Mamata Banerjee’s availability for the rally as the chief speaker,” said Abhishek. He said he will be another speaker at the rally.
The formal protest meet news comes just after the notification by Election Commission of India’s Special to speed up the revesion of electoral rolls on Wednesday.
“Both the leaders are expected to present the blueprint on how anti-SIR movements will be carried out in different parts of the state for the next few months. The chief minister is also expected to spell out the points of argument of Trinamul Congress against SIR,” said sources.
Trinamul Congress leadership has already started questioning how top state BJP leaders like the Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, and Union minister of state, Santanu Thakur, predicting the number of voters whose names would be deleted, even before the formal notification for the exercise is yet to be released.
Already, the chief minister had claimed that she would not tolerate it if the names of voters from a particular community were deleted from the electoral rolls after the SIR.
The party is likely to harp on this point (BJP leaders predicting the deleted numbers) as a political plank in its counter against the BJP. Several TMC leaders, including some elected public representatives and members of the state cabinet, have threatened that “West Bengal will be on the boil if the name of a single genuine voter is deleted from the list”.
The Trinamul Congress has been describing SIR as a “ploy” by the BJP and the Union government to “slap NRC” in West Bengal. On the other hand, the BJP has claimed that the chief minister was opposing the SIR to ensure that the names of Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators remain in the voters’ list.
