Mamata Banerjee questions fairness of the Census, asks whether it’s another SIR

Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee addresses party workers in Kolkata on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ANI The TMC supremo also alleged that some people in the BJP who do not know the politics, the culture, are insulting Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.Former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday (August 4, 2026) raised doubts over the ongoing Census exercise in West Bengal and asked whether it is turning out to be another Special Intensive Revision (SIR). “Census has been started. But no political party has been informed. At least the Trinamool Congress was not informed. Nobody knows whose name will be deleted. Is it going to be another SIR? Who knows!!” said Ms. Banerjee during a livestream on Facebook. Also Read | Three NCPI MPs skip NDA meet, refuse to join alliance or BJPOver 9