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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma connected Wednesday (February 11, 2026) claimed that the names of lakhs of "doubtful voters" were deleted during the Special Revision (SR) of electoral rolls successful the State.
He said galore of the deletions were based connected complaints filed by BJP workers.
His remark comes a time aft the Election Commission of India (ECI) had published the last voters' database for poll-bound Assam with implicit 2.43 lakh names deleted from the draught rolls.
"This is lone the beginning. Names of much specified radical volition beryllium deleted erstwhile the Special Intensive Revision is conducted," Mr. Sarma said astatine a property league successful Guwahati.
"As acold arsenic possible, our enactment members filed complaints. Names person been struck disconnected based connected these," helium said.
Mr. Sarma claimed that for the archetypal clip since the signing of the Assam Accord, specified a ample fig of names person been removed from the rolls.
"Some radical tried to endanger us, frighten us. But we went up and succeeded. Our BJP workers could person booth-level officers that radical against whom complaints were lodged were not residents anymore. We worked a lot," helium added.
Mr. Sarma besides said, "The warfare against amerciable Bangladeshi Muslim (immigrants) volition continue." At the extremity of claims and objections, the last electoral rolls was published connected Tuesday (fEBRUARY 10, 2026) with a full of 2.49 crore voters, a alteration by 0.97% from the draught list.
The CM had earlier indicated that lone ‘Miyas’ were being served notices during the SR process arsenic a maneuver to "keep them nether pressure", and said that much than 5 lakh complaints were filed by BJP workers against "illegal Bangladeshis".
'Miya' is primitively a pejorative word utilized for Bengali-speaking Muslims successful Assam and the non-Bengali speaking radical mostly place them arsenic Bangladeshi immigrants. In caller years, activists from the assemblage person started adopting this word arsenic a motion of defiance.
The SR workout had stirred overmuch contention successful the State, with absorption parties alleging that it was being utilized for "vote theft" and genuine citizens, peculiarly of a spiritual number community, were being harassed during the process.
