Kolkata/IBNS, Oct. 29 -- The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has ramped up its attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI) over Special Intensive Revision (SIR) with its national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee accusing Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar of aiming to implement backdoor National Register of Citizens (NRC) through the voter revision drive.

Addressing a press conference a day after SIR for 12 states including West Bengal was announced, Abhishek on Tuesday trained his guns at the ECI accusing the poll body of acting as an extended arm of the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which runs the Centre and desperately wants to oust the TMC regime in the eastern state.

"Our party's stand on this has alw...