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A delegation comprising elder leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Monday (November 3, 2025) met officials of the Election Commission of India (ECI) successful New Delhi and raised respective issues relating to (Special Intensive Revision) successful West Bengal.
The delegation which comprised West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya, erstwhile Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb and BJP IT compartment main Amit Malviya raised concerns implicit documents issued by the West Bengal government.
The memorandum submitted by the BJP enactment to the ECI pointed to the antithetic “ground realities” betwixt West Bengal and Bihar, stating that the State has witnessed large-scale issuance of backdated and forged documents, peculiarly done authorities schemes specified as ‘Duare Sarkar (Governance astatine doorstep) aimed ostensibly astatine national payment but efficaciously utilized to supply documentation to amerciable infiltrators from crossed the border.
There has been a abrupt surge successful delayed registrations crossed Bengal contempt commencement certificates being recognised arsenic acceptable documents for registration, the BJP enactment claimed successful the memorandum. It recommended that “birth certificates issued aft 24th June 2025 should not beryllium accepted for SIR purposes.”
The enactment raised akin objections relating to imperishable residence certificates, wood rights certificates, caste certificates and added that a broad database of each documents (birth, residence, caste, wood rights, etc.) issued aft 1.1.2002 should beryllium compiled by the District Magistrates and shared with the Chief Electoral Officer for verification.
“Given the extended manipulation of documentary mechanisms and the compromised authorities machinery, it is important that the forthcoming Special Intensive Revision successful West Bengal beryllium conducted nether enhanced scrutiny and autarkic verification. Acceptance of documents without specified safeguards would decision the nonsubjective of maintaining a cleanable and morganatic electoral roll,” the memorandum said.
SIR is being conducted successful 12 states including canvass bound West Bengal and doorway to doorway enumeration of elector lists volition commencement from Tuesday (November 4, 2025).
Speaking to media persons aft gathering ECI officials, Mr. Malviya said that the Commission EC has taken enactment of their petition and assured them they volition guarantee the sanctity of documents.
“We besides requested the EC to look astatine respective incidents of violence, and intimidation that person been reported from WB... This doesn’t augur good for democracy... TMC is tense due to the fact that elector rotation is being cleaned up, they volition suffer the mandate, due to the fact that it rests connected amerciable voters,” the BJP person said.
State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya besides posted connected societal media stating that the authorities authorities has prepared assorted authorities documents for amerciable entrants. “Birth certificates, caste certificates person been distributed to them. The Election Commission indispensable guarantee that the sanction of an amerciable national does not look successful the elector database of West Bengal,” Mr. Bhattacharya posted connected societal media.
