Parmod KumarNew Delhi, May 11 -- The Trinamool Congress on Monday told the Supreme Court that the number of voters deleted during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal exceeded the margin of victory between BJP and TMC candidates in certain Assembly constituencies in the recently concluded State elections.
Referring to the Jangipara Assembly constituency, where BJP candidate Prasenjit Bag defeated TMC's Snehasis Chakraborty by 862 votes, senior advocate and TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee told a Bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi that more than 5,000 votes had been deleted from the constituency during the SIR exercise.
According to him, the scale of deletion was far greater than the margi...