Kolkata, April 11 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of filing fake affidavits in her name to invalidate her Bhabanipur assembly constituency nomination, and alleged that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise by the Election Commission of India (ECI) is a "scam."

Addressing an election rally in West Midnapore, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader said, "My fight is not just against the BJP but also against the vanishing machine (Banerjee earlier referred to EC as vanishing machine). Yesterday, in an attempt to invalidate my nomination, the traitors filed two false affidavits in my name. They finally failed, but made an attempt so that I can't contest the polls."

"The...