New Delhi, May 14 -- Senior advocate Kalyan Bandopadhyay, appearing for former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that "Banerjee" and "Bandopadhyay" are the same surname and there was no "logical discrepancy" - a phrase coined by the Election Commission of India while questioning over 60 lakh voters during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the State.
Appearing before a Bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice N.V. Anjaria, Bandopadhyay said his own son had been placed under the "list of adjudication" during the SIR exercise because of confusion surrounding the surname "Banerjee", which he said is merely the anglicised version of the Bengali surname "Bandopadhya...