Kolkata, Nov 21 (NationPress) In a bid to sustain the momentum of the protest against the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to address an anti-SIR rally in Bangaon, located in the North 24 Parganas district, on November 25.

Following the rally, she will join a protest march in Bangaon. This marks the second time the Chief Minister will spearhead an anti-SIR rally; the first was held in Kolkata on November 4.

According to insiders from the Trinamool Congress, Bangaon was selected for this rally due to its significant population of the Matua community.

The Trinamool Congress has been campaigning that the SIR could lead to the removal of individuals from the Matua community from the voter list. The Matuas are a Hindu group from a backward class who migrated as refugees from neighboring Bangladesh and settled in various districts of West Bengal, particularly those bordering Bangladesh.

These communities primarily reside in Nadia and North 24 Parganas. In contrast, the state BJP leadership has assured the Matua community that only illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators who have managed to register in the voter list need to be concerned about the revision.

On Thursday, Mamata Banerjee reached out to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, urging him to suspend the revision process.

In her letter, she argued that the way the exercise was imposed on electoral officials and the citizens of the state was “unplanned, chaotic, and dangerous”.

On the same day, Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, responded to the CEC, claiming that CM Banerjee's letter was a desperate attempt to undermine the voter list purification initiative through the SIR and that its contents were politically motivated and factually incorrect.