Rush Hour: Mamata Banerjee appears in SC to argue SIR plea, new Manipur CM sworn in and more

Appearing before the Supreme Court, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that her state was being targeted through the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls. She questioned why the process was not being carried out in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Assam.

This was the first time a chief minister has appeared before the court to make a verbal submission.

In her petition, Banerjee has said that the voter list revision exercise poses an immediate, irreversible risk of mass disenfranchisement ahead of the Assembly elections, expected to be held in April or May. She has sought the court’s direction that the polls be conducted on the basis of the electoral rolls prepared last year. Read on.

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yumnam Khemchand Singh took oath as the chief minister of Manipur, forming a new government and ending a year of President’s Rule in the state. The Hindutva party’s Nemcha Kipgen, who belongs to the Kuki community, and ally Naga People’s Front MLA Losii Dikho, from the Naga community, were sworn in as the deputy chief ministers.

The President’s Rule was imposed in February 2025 after N Biren Singh stepped down as the chief minister amid allegations from Kuki-Zomi-Hmar groups that his response to the ethnic violence in Manipur had been partisan...

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