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Raijor Dal MLA Akhil Gogoi connected Tuesday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was pursuing an docket to manipulate the electoral rolls crossed astir booths successful Assam up of the polls.
In a societal media post, helium said that helium was privy to discussions among apical State BJP leaders astir a program to delete the names of 10,000 voters successful astatine slightest 60 constituencies and adhd caller names successful those constituencies.
“State BJP president Dilip Saikia held a video league with enactment MLAs and territory presidents connected January 4 to sermon preparations for a wall-writing run the pursuing day. The treatment veered to the manipulation of the electoral rolls during the ongoing peculiar intensive revision to guarantee the party’s triumph successful the upcoming Assembly elections,” helium said.
Mr. Gogoi said the MLAs and territory presidents were fixed a January 12 deadline to taxable booth-wise lists of voters who bash not ballot for the BJP, truthful that their names could beryllium deleted. He besides said a elder Minister was entrusted with “correcting” astatine slightest 60 Assembly seats.
Challenging Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to merchandise the video signaling of the January 4 meeting, the MLA said helium was consenting to acquisition a narco-analysis trial to warrant his claim.
“Let the authorities beryllium I americium wrong. If it is true, this is simply a sedate conspiracy against the radical of Assam and their close to vote,” helium said, demanding a judicial enquiry into the matter.
The BJP enactment did not respond to Mr. Gogoi’s allegation.
The Chief Minister reacted to the Congress’s telephone to halt the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls due to the fact that of “serious irregularities”. He said anyone with genuine interest tin spell done the existing procedures to rise objections and marque corrections.
“The Opposition should halt crying foul successful the media, and travel the procedures,” helium said.
Earlier, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) alleged that the authorities successful occidental Assam’s Bajali territory verbally instructed officials to “review” the electoral rolls to weed retired names successful astatine slightest 115 polling booths wherever Muslims are successful majority.
According to draught electoral rolls published successful December 2025, Assam recorded 2,52,01,624 electors, a 1.35% summation implicit the past revision. During the SIR, 4,78,992 dormant voters and 5,23,680 shifted electors were identified, on with 53,619 cases of aggregate entries.
