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Opposition parties successful Assam connected Friday (January 9, 2026) filed a constabulary ailment against the BJP, alleging that it was conspiring to delete names from the electoral rolls up of the Assembly polls.
The Congress, CPI(M), Raijor Dal, Assam Jatiya Parishad, and CPI(ML)L, successful a associated ailment filed astatine Dispur Police Station successful Guwahati, claimed that State BJP president Dilip Saikia has specifically entrusted Cabinet Minister Ashok Singhal to transportation retired the deletion process successful 60 Legislative Assembly Constituencies (LACs).
A Special Revision (SR) of electoral rolls is underway successful Assam, with the last elector database to beryllium published connected February 10. Assembly elections are apt to beryllium held successful March-April.
The State BJP president “instructed the BJP MLAs to instrumentality indispensable steps for deletion of names successful 60 LACs and besides entrusted Hon’ble Minister Shri Ashok Singhal successful a Zoom gathering held connected January 4, 2026”, the Opposition parties said successful the complaint.
“This is the evil plan to delete the names of supporters of Opposition parties from the electoral rolls,” it stated, urging the constabulary to unafraid the footage of the video league involving Saikia arsenic it “contains important evidence”.
The Opposition parties claimed that this was a “larger conspiracy to delete the names of ample numbers of genuine voters from the electoral rolls”.
“Therefore, you are requested to registry a lawsuit nether due Sections of the Penal Law and instrumentality indispensable steps to publication the conspirators to prevention democracy,” the ailment said. A constabulary serviceman said the substance is being looked into.
