Sribhumi, March 31 -- Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev launched a sharp attack against the BJP and the Election Commission over the reported deletion of voters in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in West Bengal, calling it an "environment resembling Emergency".

Speaking to ANI, Sushmita Dev accused the BJP of deleting voters' names from the list in order to defeat the TMC government in the West Bengal Assembly elections.

She said, "The ECI and the BJP government together have created such an environment in Bengal during the elections that resembles the Emergency. Names of so many lakhs of voters have been deleted from the voter list. They know that unless they murder democracy in Bengal, it ...