Mamata Banerjee to appear in Supreme Court today to argue SIR case

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has moved an interlocutory application seeking permission to appear before the Supreme Court to argue in person her pending petition challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI). Banerjee will be present in court room 1 on Wednesday along with her lawyers. A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul Pancholi will hear the case. Banerjee had filed an Article 32 petition challenging the SIR process. Banerjee has submitted that as the sitting Chief Minister of West Bengal and chairperson of the All India Trinamool Congress, she is fully aware of the decorum and procedure of the Supreme Court and undertakes to conduct herself in accordance with established rules and practice Last reports of her practicing as a lawyer date back to 2003.The application further asserts that Banerjee is aware of the ground realities faced by residents of West Bengal due to the SIR process being undertaken by the Election Commission of India, which is under challenge in the writ petition. She has also sought a direction that the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections be conducted on the basis of the existing electoral rolls instead of rolls which will be revised after SIR.