Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 07:19am on 07 Nov 2026,Saturday India
Former Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi has questioned the legal validity of the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections, citing alleged large-scale voter deletions during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Speaking at the Hashim Abdul Halim Memorial Lecture in Kolkata on November 6, he urged the Supreme Court to investigate constituencies where reports suggested 70–80% of Muslim voters were removed. Comparing SIR with Assam’s NRC exercise, Quraishi criticised the voter verification process and proposed restoring wrongly deleted names through an effective mechanism. He clarified that the Supreme Court must determine the matter and did not demand cancellation of the entire election. (PC: The Hindu)
