New Delhi: A discover issued to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen beneath the continuing Particular Intensive Revision in West Bengal has prompted a furore, with the Congress demanding an apology from the Election Fee of India (ECI).

His cousin Shantabhanu Sen instructed media individuals that Sen has been issued a discover saying that there’s a 15-year age distinction between him and his mom—highlighting an age discrepancy.

The Congress social gathering has referred to as the discover “tragic”, asserting that the ECI and Prime Minister Narendra Modi ought to apologise.

“The Election Fee has requested Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen to show his citizenship. They’ve formally despatched him a discover for this objective. Gyanesh Kumar has tarnished the credibility of the Election Fee, and that too solely as a result of he needs to please his boss Modi,” learn a submit by the social gathering’s X account.

SIR की धांधली को समझिए 👇

चुनाव आयोग ने नोबल पुरस्कार विजेता अमर्त्य सेन को अपनी नागरिकता साबित करने को कहा है। बाकायदा इसके लिए उन्हें नोटिस भेजा गया है।

ज्ञानेश कुमार ने चुनाव आयोग की साख पर बट्टा लगा दिया है, वो भी सिर्फ इसलिए कि उन्हें अपने मालिक मोदी को खुश करना है।…

— Congress (@INCIndia) January 7, 2026

Trinamool Congress additionally questioned the discover, posting on X, “A Nobel laureate ought to be above any suspicion, proper? However what if he’s a Bengali? Then he’ll be slapped with listening to notices as if he had been some frequent prison.”

Highlighting Sen’s contribution to trendy Economics, the ruling social gathering within the state wrote, “That is the cynical, shameful farce of @BJP4India and @ECISVEEP‘s SIR course of. They are going to drag our icons by means of the mud, tarnish our pleasure, and stoop to any low if it serves their Bangla-Birodhi agenda of division and degradation.”

A Nobel laureate ought to be above any suspicion, proper? However what if he is a Bengali? Then he’ll be slapped with listening to notices as if he had been some frequent prison.

Amartya Sen, whose groundbreaking works kind the bedrock of recent economics, who has introduced unparalleled glory to… pic.twitter.com/bzp37QORF9

— All India Trinamool Congress (@AITCofficial) January 7, 2026

On Tuesday, TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee had additionally accused the ECI of focusing on residents, referring to the discover to Sen.

Nonetheless, PTI had then quoted EC sources, who had clarified that Sen had been summoned as a consequence of a spelling error in his identify, and that he was not required to look for a listening to.

“The confusion over the spelling is only technical and has no bearing on the voter’s eligibility. Our officers have been instructed to resolve such issues on the administrative degree to stop pointless controversy,” an official was quoted as saying on Tuesday by the information company.

Cricketer Shami additionally issued discover

Cricket Mohammad Shami and his brother Mohammad Kaif have additionally been requested to look for a listening to beneath the SIR train. In line with sources in West Bengal, Shami was requested to look for a listening to owing to an incorrectly stuffed and incomplete enumeration kind.

Whereas the discover issued to him required him to look Monday, Shami couldn’t since he’s enjoying for the Bengal workforce within the Vijay Hazare Trophy event. His listening to needed to, subsequently, be rescheduled.

Over 58 lakh voters—round 7.6 p.c of the state’s whole voters—had been dropped from the draft electoral roll in West Bengal, following the SIR train.

Of the 58.2 lakh voters deleted, 24.16 lakh (3.15 p.c) had been discovered to be deceased, 32.65 lakh (4.26 p.c) had been discovered to have shifted, or had been absent from their residences, and 1.38 lakh (0.18 p.c) electors had been discovered to have been enrolled at a number of locations. Of the 7.66 crore electors, a complete of seven.08 crore electors had submitted their enumeration kinds for the train within the state.

Claims and objections are being filed from 16 December 2025 until 15 January 2026, and the part of issuing discover, and listening to and verification is underway parallelly from 16 December to 7 February.

The SIR train has remained a bone of rivalry within the state, with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee writing to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on 3 January, urging the fee to halt the train. Banerjee had positioned on report her “grave concern relating to the intense irregularities, procedural violations, and administrative lapses being witnessed” throughout the course of.

In response, BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari had written to Kumar Monday, saying that her name to halt SIR of electoral rolls was “nothing in need of an admission of defeat”.

(Edited by Mannat Chugh)

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