The SIR process officially begins on Tuesday. And on that very day, Trinamool Congress is taking to the streets. Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool's All India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee will hold a rally on the streets. On November 4, Tuesday at 1:30 PM, this rally will start from Red Road, in front of the statue of BR Ambedkar. The rally will go up to Jorasanko. On the very day when BLOs will start going door-to-door to fill up enumeration forms, Trinamool's top leadership is taking to the streets over SIR.
On October 27, the Election Commission announced the dates for SIR in West Bengal, along with Andaman and Nicobar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh. The SIR process in Bengal has started from October 28. Currently, training of BLOs is ongoing.
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From next Tuesday, November 4, BLOs will start the door-to-door enumeration form fill-up phase. This is the key phase of the SIR process. Every voter will have to fill up this form. If the name is not in the 2002 SIR, one will have to show any one of the 11 documents specified by the Election Commission. Based on this, the draft voter list and subsequently the final voter list will be determined. If someone's name is not in the final voter list, they will not have voting rights either. Trinamool's clear statement is that not a single eligible voter's name should be left out. Otherwise, the heat of protest will reach Delhi.
This time, the message regarding SIR is even stronger. Trinamool has chosen the very day when BLOs will go door-to-door for the rally. Repeatedly, allegations are being raised from Trinamool's side that this SIR is actually the BJP's strategy, a way to implement NRC through the back door. On Friday itself, Abhishek Banerjee held a virtual meeting with nearly 18,000 leaders from various levels of Trinamool. He gave a clear message that not a single legitimate voter's name should be left out of the list; BLOs should keep an eye on this. They have to be man-marked.
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Alongside, he has instructed to open party help desks in every area of the state and war rooms in every assembly constituency. Party MPs and MLAs will have to be present there regularly. Abhishek's message is very clear – for the next 2 months, leaving everything aside, party leaders and workers will have to stand by the common people. The goal will be to ensure that not a single legitimate voter is left out from the voter list. Party leaders and workers are confident that this message will emerge once again from Tuesday's mega rally.
