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West Bengal's Leader of Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari, has raised concerns about the voter lists, alleging that they contain many dead and fake voters ahead of the special intensive revision (SIR) in West Bengal.
Ahead of the Election Commission of India's (ECI) press conference on Monday, Adhikari said that the voter list should be prepared correctly. Speaking to ANI, Suvendu Adhikari said, "Voter lists must be prepared correctly. There are many dead and fake voters in West Bengal. There are double and triple entries. Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators are there. All of them should be removed. Bhowanipore is a BJP seat. In 2014, the BJP held a lead here. In the last Lok Sabha elections, the BJP led in five out of eight wards. Of 267, the BJP led in 142 and the TMC in 125. This is a BJP seat. The BJP's lotus will bloom here." He further said that in the Nandigram Assembly constituency, the BJP defeated TMC, and in Bhowanipore, the BJP will also win. "She (Mamata Banerjee) will run away and contest from where Muslims are in the majority. It will be difficult for us to defeat her there because she is the messiah of Muslims. Nobody is safe in Bengal. Even the Governor, the Central Minister, and journalists are not safe. This is even worse than the jungle raj," he further said. The ECI has announced a press conference on Monday at 4:15 pm. On October 6, CEC Gyanesh Kumar announced that the SIR of voter lists will be conducted nationwide. At the last conference in September, the CEO of Bihar presented on the strategies, constraints, and best practices adopted, so that the CEOs of the rest of the country could learn from their experiences, said EC in a press note. "The CEOs provided detailed presentations on the number of Electors, the qualifying date of the last SIR, and the electoral roll in their respective State/UT, as per the last completed SIR. The CEOs also presented the status of digitisation and uploading of the Electoral Roll after the previous SIR on the State/UT CEO website," the EC said in the note. "They also provided the status of mapping current electors with those as per the last SIR in the State/UT," it said. To ensure uniform implementation of the Commission's initiative to ensure that no polling station has over 1,200 electors, the status of polling station rationalisation was also reviewed. (ANI)
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