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A time aft the work of West Bengal’s post-SIR electoral rolls that saw 63.66 lakh names deleted, BJP nationalist president Nitin Nabin connected Sunday claimed that “more than 50 lakh infiltrators” had been removed from the elector database and said "time is up for amerciable immigrants" successful the State.
Addressing a rally successful Cooch Behar portion flagging disconnected the party’s 'Poriborton Yatra', Mr. Nabin alleged that those removed from the electoral rolls were “infiltrators”, who had been availing authorities jobs and benefits of payment schemes meant for genuine citizens.
“More than 50 lakh infiltrators person been removed from the elector list. These infiltrators were not lone violating the rights of morganatic citizens but besides jeopardising the information of the country,” helium said.
The BJP main alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had provided "protection to infiltrators by helping them get fake documents".
“Mamata Banerjee rushed to the courts to support infiltrators successful the elector rolls, arsenic they are her party’s ballot bank. But erstwhile women look humiliation, you take to look the different way,” Mr. Nabin said, successful a crisp onslaught connected the TMC leadership.
He besides said, “Our connection to the infiltrators is that the clip has present travel to thrust them retired from the ungraded of Bengal. We indispensable not lone thrust retired infiltrators but besides found a decisive authorities that tin usher successful development." Alleging “misrule” by the TMC, Mr. Nabin said the State needs to beryllium “freed from the corrupt TMC government, which works lone for infiltrators. “Bengal is yearning for a change. People privation a existent ‘Poriborton'," helium said.
His remarks came a time aft the Election Commission published the post-SIR rolls, marking a sweeping electoral reset hardly months earlier the Assembly polls.
According to authoritative information released connected Saturday (February 28, 2026), 63.66 lakh names — astir 8.3% of the electorate — person been deleted since the Special Intensive Revision began successful November past year, reducing the elector basal from 7.66 crore to conscionable implicit 7.04 crore.
The 116-day State-wide workout — the archetypal intensive revision since 2002 — has besides placed implicit 60.06 lakh electors successful the “under adjudication” category, with their eligibility present taxable to judicial scrutiny successful the coming weeks, a process that could further recalibrate Constituency-level equations.
The draught rolls published connected December 16 past twelvemonth had already pared down the electorate from 7.66 crore to 7.08 crore, deleting implicit 58 lakh names connected grounds specified arsenic death, migration, duplication and untraceability.
Following hearings and disposal of claims and objections, different 5.46 lakh deletions were recorded done Form-7 applications, taking the full SIR-linked omissions to astir 63.66 lakh.
