Political Crisis in West Bengal: Suicide Cases Linked to Electoral Roll Revision Spark Fierce TMC-BJP Confrontation

Oct 30, 2025 10:11 am CST

West Bengal faces intense political turmoil as two suicide incidents allegedly linked to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls have triggered a bitter confrontation between Trinamool Congress and BJP. Trinamool's Abhishek Banerjee has directly accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the Election Commission of creating panic, while the BJP dismisses these claims as politically motivated fabrications. The controversy centers around fears that the electoral revision process could be used to implement citizenship verification through backdoor methods.