ECI clears ‘plantation records’ as valid SIR documents in north Bengal, says BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari

Senior BJP person Suvendu Adhikari connected Sunday (January 11, 2026) said the ECI has approved the usage of beverage plot and cinchona plantation employment records arsenic valid documents for individuality and residence for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls for 7 districts successful the bluish parts of West Bengal.

Mr. Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition successful the West Bengal Assembly, besides posted connected X a missive dated January 11 issued by the ECI to the Chief Electoral Officer of the State.

The missive shared by Mr. Adhikari stated that the Commission has conveyed its nary objection to accepting beverage plot and cinchona plantation records arsenic documents for SIR 2026 successful the districts of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, Uttar Dinajpur and Dakshin Dinajpur.

In the station written successful Hindi, Mr. Adhikari described the determination arsenic a "major victory" for what helium called the long-neglected voices of northbound Bengal.

“This support applies to the districts of North Bengal, wherever our hardworking tribal & forest-dwelling radical and plantation workers person agelong been deprived of their antiauthoritarian rights owed to documentation hurdles and the State government's negligence,” the BJP person said.

Mr. Adhikari urged each eligible voters successful these areas to travel guardant and enrol themselves successful the electoral rolls utilizing their plantation employment records, stating that voting rights were the existent spot of the radical and indispensable for strengthening democracy.