Kolkata, March 10 -- Hailing the Supreme Court's order to constitute an appellate tribunal regarding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday lifted her dharna against the "flawed" SIR process.
Announcing that she was calling off her dharna "temporarily" on the fifth day of the protest, Banerjee said the Trinamool Congress will keep a close watch on future developments.
Earlier, addressing the concern over the absence of an independent appellate mechanism to appeal against exclusions from the electoral rolls, the court requested the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court to constitute an appellate tribunal of former Chief Justices or judges to hear appeals against dec...