Trinamool Congress (TMC) All India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee held a crucial virtual meeting on Friday, issuing directives to the party’s organizational wings in response to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list in West Bengal.
Several thousand leaders from state, district, and block levels attended the meeting, where Abhishek emphasised the importance of proactive coordination at the grassroots level. According to party sources, the TMC leader has ordered the establishment of 294 “war rooms” across the state — one for each assembly constituency — to monitor the voter list revision process. These war rooms will be supervised by local MLAs, while in constituencies without an MLA, the responsibility will rest with block presidents.
Each war room will be equipped with laptops, internet connections, and at least four to five tech-savvy volunteers to ensure smooth communication and data management, Abhishek instructed.
The Election Commission has begun revising the electoral rolls in West Bengal and 11 other states since Tuesday, with Booth Level Officers (BLOs) set to conduct door-to-door verification from November 4. Abhishek has directed the party’s Booth Level Agents (BLAs) to function as shadow assistants to the BLOs during this exercise.
He has also instructed party leaders to finalise the list of BLA 1 and 2 by November 3 to ensure readiness before the BLOs begin fieldwork. “Every BLA must assist citizens in filling out enumeration forms,” Abhishek told the gathering, stressing that the goal was to ensure no genuine voter’s name is omitted from the rolls.
The TMC has repeatedly alleged that there are attempts to remove legitimate voters’ names from the lists under the guise of revision. Party minister Chandrima Bhattacharya and state general secretary Kunal Ghosh on Thursday claimed to have found “major discrepancies” between the 2002 voter list and the 2025 draft list published by the Election Commission.
Citing examples from several districts, the leaders alleged that names were being “selectively omitted” as part of a politically motivated strategy. Abhishek reiterated these concerns during Friday’s meeting, warning party workers to remain vigilant.
“We must ensure that the BJP and the Commission do not omit the name of any real voter in the name of revising the voter list,” he said.
Abhishek instructed TMC workers to maintain close contact with BLOs at every booth and to monitor their fieldwork carefully. He further directed that camps must be opened in every area during the door-to-door verification phase, functioning daily from 9 a.m. to 5 pm, so that no BLO’s activity goes unobserved.
West Bengal currently has around 3,500 gram panchayats and 2,800 municipal wards, all of which will be covered under this monitoring initiative.
Explaining the party’s heightened activity, Abhishek accused the BJP of “secretly manipulating the voter list using the Commission.” He said the extensive initiative was aimed at ensuring “not a single genuine voter’s name is left out.”
With the 2026 Assembly elections drawing closer, Friday’s directives signal TMC’s determination to guard its voter base and counter alleged irregularities in the electoral process.
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