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The West Bengal portion of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Friday (October 25, 2025) accused the Trinamool Congress (TMC) authorities of issuing “fake citizenship” documents successful the State’s borderline districts by issuing delayed commencement certificates.
The enactment claimed that these certificates are being utilized to make “fake voters” up of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls. BJP State President Samik Bhattacharya shared connected societal media an authoritative papers detailing delayed commencement registrations successful Uttar Dinajpur, a territory bordering Bangladesh.
According to the document, signed by the Chief Medical Officer of Health connected October 14, 2025, the full fig of delayed commencement registrations stood astatine 12,393 successful 2024 and 4,770 betwixt January and August 2025.
Mr. Bhattacharya alleged that the unusually precocious fig of delayed registrations suggested “fabrication of citizenship” earlier the SIR and the 2026 Assembly election. He reiterated the BJP’s request for swift implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) to “protect Bengal’s security”.
Experts accidental commencement certificates volition play a important relation successful proving a person’s eligibility to stay connected the rolls during the revision.
The BJP has besides been ramping up efforts to mobilise potential CAA beneficiaries, peculiarly among the Matua community in borderline districts similar Nadia and North 24 Parganas. Earlier this month, the enactment announced plans to acceptable up much than 700 CAA assistance camps across the State to assistance “non-Muslim refugees” use for Indian citizenship.
Similar allegations person been raised by BJP MLA Sankar Ghosh, who wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah earlier this month, claiming that Kharibari Rural Hospital in Darjeeling had issued fake and backdated commencement and decease certificates betwixt August and October. “These certificates could assistance infiltrators stay connected the elector database arsenic Indian citizens, which is wholly illegal,” helium wrote.
Responding to the charges, a Trinamool Congress spokesperson dismissed the allegations arsenic politically motivated. “The TMC relies connected genuine voters. It was Mamata Banerjee who archetypal objected erstwhile names from different States appeared successful Bengal’s elector lists. We will not let fake voters nether immoderate circumstances,” the spokesperson said.
