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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress<\/a> (TMC) leader Mamata Banerjee<\/a> on Tuesday accused authorities of selectively removing names from the state\u2019s voter rolls following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise ahead of the forthcoming assembly elections.Addressing a rally in Chakdaha in Nadia district, Mamata said the TMC would support individuals whose names were excluded from the electoral register after the latest revision process. According to the Election Commission, nearly 91 lakh voters have been deleted from the rolls in West Bengal as part of the post\u2011SIR update, news agency PTI reported.The CM claimed a large number of names had been reinstated after her interventions in the Supreme Court. \u201cFollowing her intervention in the Supreme Court, around 32 lakh names out of nearly 60 lakh cases under \u2018adjudication\u2019 had been restored,\u201d she said, indicating that nearly half of the disputed entries were put back on the rolls following legal action.The chief minister further alleged that \u201cnames were being removed from official records by targeting specific communities,\u201d suggesting that the deletions were not random but aimed at particular groups.The West Bengal assembly polls are scheduled in two phases, with voting on April 23 and April 29, and counting of votes set for May 4.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n