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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has flagged the “verbal” survey of voters crossed 115 Muslim-majority polling booths successful occidental Assam’s Bajali district.
In a missive connected Friday (January 2, 2026), the Left Front constituent drew the attraction of the State’s Chief Electoral Officer to a “serious and alleged violation” of the peculiar revision process of electoral rolls successful Bajali.
Suprakash Talukdar, Secretary of the party’s Assam State Committee, said the Bajali District Commissioner convened a gathering of officials associated with the electoral process aft the draught electoral rotation was published connected December 27, 2025. He said Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Ranjeet Kumar Dass attended the gathering with mostly schoolhouse teachers.
“It is learnt that during this gathering the District Commissioner verbally directed these authorities servants to behaviour a ‘survey’ oregon verification of voters successful 115 polling booths of Bajali territory (76 booths successful 21-Bhawanipur-Sorbhog LAC and 39 Booths successful 26-Bajali LAC) dominated by voters belonging to the Muslim community,” Mr. Talukdar said.
LAC expands to the Legislative Assembly Constituency.
“Significantly, nary ceremonial written bid oregon authoritative connection was issued by the District Commissioner authorising specified verification oregon survey successful those booths. What is highly objectionable and unacceptable is that these instructions were specifically issued for polling booths wherever the officially appointed Booth Level Officers [BLOs] are Muslims,” helium said.
A database of these polling booths with the names of the appointed BLOs was attached to the letter.
Mr. Talukdar besides said the authorities servants sought written orders to survey the voters, but their petition was reportedly ignored.
The CPI(M) said directing different authorities servants to transportation retired elector verification, bypassing the BLOs appointed nether the rules of the Election Commission, amounted to the gross usurpation of the prescribed peculiar revision procedure.
“If the allegations are recovered to beryllium true, stringent enactment should beryllium taken against the erring officials to uphold the credibility, impartiality, and law mandate of the Election Commission, and to guarantee that the peculiar revision process successful Assam is conducted successful a fair, transparent, and non-discriminatory manner,” the enactment said.
