New Delhi, May 11 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has raised questions on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and suggested that large-scale deletions and delayed verification of appeals may have helped the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in winning the state with landslide votes.

In West Bengal Assembly election 2026, the BJP won 207 seats, while Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress bagged only 80 constituencies.

Making sense of the West Bengal election verdict, Shashi Tharoor said around 91 lakh names were struck off the lists, with approximately 34 lakh individuals filing appeals claiming they were genuine voters.

Shashi Tharoor said, "In the matter of the SIR, what I have said is a legitimate question to answer. Lo...