India, March 3 -- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged an "ECI-BJP nexus" behind the deletion of 63.66 lakh names from the State's electoral rolls following the SIR, claiming that the exercise was designed to help the saffron party ahead of the 2026 Assembly polls.

In her first reaction since the publication of the final post-SIR rolls on February 28, the TMC supremo termed the deletions "deliberate and inhumane," asserting that genuine voters were being struck off because the BJP "cannot win elections on its own merit".

The CM also declared that she would emerge victorious in her Assembly constituency, Bhabanipur, notwithstanding the deletions, and "even if there is one vote left".

"These deletions in voter rol...