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Kolkata: The Left, the Congress and the Mamata All India Trinamool Congress on October 26 joined civil rights organisations and public figures in urging the West Bengal State Election Commission to put off elections to the Kolkata and Howrah municipal corporations. They urged that the polls be held only after voters struck off the rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) have had a chance to be heard.

In a memorandum submitted to State Election Commissioner Krishna Gupta, they also asked the commission to use its statutory powers to include in the civic electoral rolls everyone whose appeal is still pending before the SIR appellate tribunals.

According to a press release issued by the signatories, the State Election Commissioner’s office said he would meet a delegation of them at 3 pm on Wednesday, October 28, to discuss the memorandum.

The memorandum was signed by West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president Subhankar Sarkar, Lok Sabha MP Sougata Roy of........

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