Thakurnagar: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday led a three-kilometre march from Chandpara in Bongaon to Thakurnagar, the heartland of the Matua community in North 24 Parganas district, to protest the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state.

The procession, organised by the Trinamool Congress supremo after she addressed an anti-SIR rally at Bangaon town near the India-Bangladesh border, ended at Dhakuria school in Thakurnagar, a party leader said. Participants walked with blue and white balloons, waved TMC flags and shouted slogans against the SIR exercise.

The Election Commission of India has undertaken the SIR process in nine states, including West Bengal, and three Union Territories, ahead of the 2026 assembly polls. Banerjee was greeted with flowers and waved to people who lined both sides of the route.

A few elderly women were seen embracing the chief minister during the march, while she also took babies from their mothers’ laps to cuddle them. TMC Rajya Sabha MP Mamatabala Thakur, minister Sujit Bose, and former minister and MLA Jyoti Priya Mallick were among several senior party leaders who accompanied her in the march.

With inputs from PTI