Amid TMC split, Humayun Kabir offers to vacate Rejinagar seat for Mamata’s return to Assembly
Kabir said that he is ready to resign and ensure Mamata Banerjee is elected from Rejinagar.
The Supreme Court is all set to hear a batch of petitions challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in various states. As per details available, the apex court will hear pleas challenging the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) SIR exercise in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Bihar.
While the constitutional legality of the SIR exercise already conducted in Bihar will come up for hearing at 2 pm today, the pleas challenging the exercise currently being conducted in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal will be taken up for hearing on December 2, 4 and 9, respectively, said news agency ANI.
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The development came as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has been campaigning against the SIR, on Wednesday, said the citizenship of the people is being questioned after so many years of Independence.
The firebrand leader also alleged that the actual intent behind the SIR exercise was to conduct the NRC (National Register of Citizens).
The ECI is carrying out SIR pan-India to weed out ineligible voters and illegal immigrants who have somehow managed to enter the electoral rolls, in order to protect the integrity of the poll process. However, the Opposition has alleged that the aim of the exercise is to disenfranchise genuine voters who support opposition parties and thereby help the BJP.
The BJP-led Central government and the ECI have rejected the remarks.
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju today, on the occasion of Constitution Day 2025, said: “Anyone who believes in the Constitution will not speak like this, keeping in mind the dignity of every system, every institution, every process, and every position… Everything that exists under the Constitution, whether it’s an institution or a practice, must be followed by everyone. This is the fundamental principle of the Constitution… Everyone should respect not just the Constitution, but the spirit of what is written within the Constitution…”
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