India, March 6 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday launched a dharna (sit-in) outside Kolkata's Esplanade metro station to protest the deletion of several million names during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll.

This was the venue of her 26-day hunger strike in 2006 that compelled the then CPI(M) government to abort the Tata small car factory project.

After she called the Election Commission an "agent" of a "shameless Bharatiya Janata Party" in a brief speech, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee set the tone for her indefinite dharna by calling for a "total boycott" of the BJP in the coming state assembly polls.

"Boycott BJP. You may have reasons not to lik...