The controversy surrounding the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) following a media investigation has raised questions that go well beyond the familiar political battle over voter lists. As per that investigation, Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had allegedly recorded objections at least 14 times over 10 months, including concerns about being kept out of key decisions, the increasing centralisation of the voter database, change

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee holds a child on the occassion of Eid al-Fitr in Kolkata on Saturday. New Delhi: In the West Bengal assembly elections, issues of illegal infiltration and freebies are set to dominate the discourse. The BJP is weaving its strategy around infiltration, while the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has countered by branding the 'Special Intensive Revision' (SIR) as the first phase of the National Register of Citizens (NRC). In this race, the TMC