India, May 12 -- The TMC on Monday claimed that the Supreme Court's decision to allow fresh petitions over SIR-induced voter removals in West Bengal validated its claim that the election results did not reflect the people's true mandate, as the party's defeat margins in several Assembly seats were "lower than the number of deleted electors".

Rubbishing that claim, the BJP called the erstwhile Mamata Banerjee dispensation "sore losers", insisting that the poll data showed that it was the Trinamool Congress, and not the BJP, which fared better in seats where the maximum number of ineligible voters were deleted.

The Supreme Court said former chief minister Mamata Banerjee and others can file fresh applications regarding their claim that th...