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The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) has followed the Opposition governmental parties successful raising questions astir the Special Revision of the electoral rolls successful the State.
The Union’s adviser, Samujjal Bhattacharya, said the lists of voters successful Assam had ne'er been error-free since the 1985 Assembly elections, held soon aft the Assam Accord was signed to extremity a six-year agitation that sought to eject radical of doubtful nationalities from the State.
“A faulty voters’ database (ahead of a by-election to the Mangaldoi Lok Sabha successful 1979) triggered the Assam Agitation. However, the contented of incorrect electoral rolls has persisted,” helium told journalists connected the sidelines of a nationalist lawsuit successful cardinal Assam’s Morigaon connected Wednesday (January 7, 2026).
Mr. Bhattacharya said a credible and error-free elector database would beryllium intolerable unless the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was corrected and updated. “Prepared nether the nonstop supervision of the Supreme Court, the NRC indispensable service arsenic the basal papers for electoral rolls,” helium added.
The NRC workout has been successful limbo aft its implicit draught was published successful August 2019, omitting 19.06 lakh retired of 3.3 crore applicants who sought to beryllium enlisted. It has not been officially notified, and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Assam authorities has questioned its accuracy.
Pointing to reports that caller voters from beyond Assam, specifically bluish India, were being added to the voters’ lists during the ongoing Special Revision, Mr. Bhattacharya said the Election Commission should delete specified names if anomalies were found.
“The predetermination authorities indispensable explicate however specified discrepancies are cropping up, and strict enactment should beryllium taken against the officials responsible,” helium said.
On Tuesday (January 6), Raijor Dal MLA alleged that the BJP was moving connected a program to place voters crossed the State’s 126 Assembly seats to place those who bash not ballot for the BJP. He said the saffron enactment intended to delete astir 10,000 specified voters from each constituency and adhd caller names of supporters.
Earlier, the Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) accused the authorities of manipulating the elector database to guarantee the BJP’s triumph successful the coming Assembly polls. They linked their apprehension to the Chief Minister’s assurance that the BJP and its allies would triumph astatine slightest 103 seats.
