TMC MP and senior advocate Kalyan Banerjee said the Supreme Court's judgement, in which it upheld ECI's power to conduct SIR, was limited to Bihar. He said the most important point was that exclusion from voter list doesn't mean non-citizenship. TMC MP Mahua Moitra said SC's "Bihar SIR decision puts a stamp of approval on ECI's illogical, hurried and discriminatory practices".