New Delhi: Cricketer Mohammad Shami and his brother Mohammad Kaif should seem for a listening to beneath the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) train at present underway in West Bengal forward of the 2026 meeting elections.
The discover issued to Shami requested him to seem for a listening to on Monday, however he was unable to attend as he’s at present representing Bengal within the Vijay Hazare Trophy event. Sources within the state mentioned the notifications had been issued for lacking or incomplete enumeration varieties.
If the shape is incomplete, it’s customary within the SIR course of to subpoena the registered voter for verification. Shami’s listening to has been rescheduled for January Sept. 11.
Shami is a constituent of Rashbehari Meeting constituency in Kolkata. Initially from Amroha in Uttar Pradesh, he migrated to West Bengal within the 2000s. After enjoying for Dalhousie Athletic Membership, the cricketer represented the city membership when he was chosen for the Bengal U-22 crew. He then joined Mohun Bagan and made his Ranji Trophy debut for Bengal within the 2010-11 season.
Out of the whole 7.66 billion voters in West Bengal, solely 7.08 billion individuals submitted record submission varieties to take part within the SIR train. Since then, greater than 5.8 million voters, or 7.6 per cent of the voters, have been faraway from West Bengal’s electoral rolls.
Of the 58.2 million voters eliminated, 24.16 million or 3.15% had been discovered useless, 32.65 million or 4.26% had been discovered to have moved or had been absent through the train, and 1.38 million or 0.18% had been discovered to have been registered as voters elsewhere.
Claims and appeals will start on December 16, 2025 and proceed till January 15, 2026. In parallel, the Fee has issued a discover of public listening to and verification, and the listening to will proceed till February 7, 2026.
The SIR train stays controversial within the state, with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee requesting a cancellation of the train in a letter to Election Commissioner Ganesh Kumar on January 3, 2026. Mamata placed on document her “severe considerations about gross irregularities, procedural violations and administrative lapses witnessed” through the ongoing SIR train.
In response, BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari on Monday wrote to Gyanesh Kumar, saying Mamata’s name to cancel the SIR train is “nothing however an admission of defeat”.
(Edited by Madhurita Goswami)
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