India, May 11 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor compared the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in Kerala and West Bengal, claiming it was one of the reasons the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the recent assembly elections in the eastern state.

While Tharoor admitted that the Congress might have benefited from the SIR of voter rolls in Kerala, the Thiruvananthapuram MP pointed out the large number of appeals in the West Bengal assembly compared to "a few hundred" in the southern state. He also noted that only a small number of these cases in West Bengal were adjudicated before polling, leaving the vast majority unresolved at the time of voting.

"In the matter of the SIR, what I have said is a legitimate question to answer. Look at t...