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Congress and Communist Party of India (Marxist) leaders successful West Bengal came down heavy connected the Bharatiya Janta Party connected Friday (December 19) and said that the “increasing illegal infiltrators” communicative developed by the BJP was proved incorrect aft the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process draught rotation was published.
CPI(M) State caput Mohammad Salim said that the BJP leadership’s “excitement to throw retired amerciable infiltrators successful West Bengal fell flat” aft the draught electoral rotation was published and astir Muslim-dominated areas were mapped amended successful the State.
“This is the crushed they (BJP government) are not doing a nationalist census due to the fact that it a wide census which includes each Indians. That is wherefore calling Muslims infiltrators oregon Rohingyas is simply a mode for the BJP to dehumanise the people. This is not a Hindu-Muslim issue. There are many marginalised in India who are susceptible and person nary documents,” Mr Salim said. He added that galore susceptible radical from tribal communities, women, rented accommodation holders, thoroughfare dwellers basal a accidental to beryllium omitted successful the SIR process owed to deficiency of factual documents and should be looked into.
He raised questions astir however radical who person not been named successful the draught electoral rotation but are ineligible Indian citizens volition beryllium included successful the list. He accused that BJP and RSS are not lone against Muslims, but are against each minorities and marginalised, including caste minorities and women.
Ghulam Ahmad Mir, MLA from Jammu and Kashmir, said that the rumour that the BJP enactment had dispersed successful West Bengal that determination are implicit a crore of “infiltrators” successful the State has been proved wrong. “Among the 58 lakh deletions successful the Bengal draught electoral rolls, 24 are deceased. I inquire them (BJP), however galore are the “infiltrators” among this list?” Mr Mir asked. He said that adjacent if immoderate undocumented radical are recovered successful Bengal, astir of them are minorities from adjacent Bangladesh and they have all travel nether humanitarian causes.
Mr Mir added that nary 1 is against SIR, alternatively they are lone against the “hurried” process the Election Commission of India (ECI) followed to bash the SIR process is questionable.
The draught electoral rotation was published connected Tuesday (December 16), wherever 58 lakh deletions were marked successful the list. Around 24.16 lakh electors were identified arsenic deceased, 32.65 lakh electors arsenic shifted and absent, and 1.38 lakh electors were recovered to person duplicate enrolments successful aggregate places.
The last elector database volition beryllium published connected February 14, 2025.
West Bengal is acceptable to clasp the State Legislative Assembly in mid-2026.
