India, March 6 -- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday began a sit-in protest in Kolkata against what she described as arbitrary deletions from the revised electoral rolls, intensifying the Trinamool Congress's confrontation with the Election Commission ahead of the upcoming state assembly elections.

Launching the dharna at the Esplanade Metro Channel in central Kolkata, Banerjee accused the BJP and the Election Commission of conspiring to disenfranchise Bengali voters. "I will expose the BJP-EC conspiracy to disenfranchise Bengali voters," the TMC chief said while addressing supporters at the protest site.

She also alleged that several voters had been wrongly marked as deceased in the updated rolls and claimed that thos...