India, May 11 -- Trinamool Congress (TMC) claimed on Monday that deletions in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll materially affected the results in certain assembly constituencies in West Bengal.

The claim was made during a hearing in the Supreme Court before a bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymlaya Bagchi. TMC leader and senior advocate Kalyan Banerjee submitted that in 31 constituencies, the BJP's winning margin over the TMC was less than the number of persons deleted in the SIR adjudication process, LiveLaw reported.

In many cases, the deletions and the loss margin were almost the same, he added.

Banerjee submitted that one candidate lost by 862 votes in a constituency where o...