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Leader of Opposition of West Bengal Assembly and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) person Suvendu Adhikari connected Saturday (November 29, 2025) accused the Mamata Banerjee authorities of ‘tainting’ the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the State’s electoral rolls by allegedly influencing booth-level officers (BLOs) to adhd oregon clasp names of ineligible voters during the ongoing enumeration phase.
“So acold [to] my knowledge, 1 crore 20 lakh [enumeration forms] person not been digitised, and of the forms that person been digitised, astir 27.5 lakh names person been dropped. But this fig is excessively low. The names of galore dormant voters and amerciable Bangladeshi infiltrators are being retained nether the enactment of the tainted, corrupt Chief Secretary Manoj Pant,” Mr. Adhikari said.
The BJP MLA from Nandigram besides said that the enactment has the powerfulness of ‘Forms 6, 7, and 8’ to guarantee ineligible voters are struck disconnected during SIR, aft the draught electoral rotation is published connected December 9. Forms 6, 7, and 8 notation to exertion forms for the inclusion of caller voters, raising objections oregon proposals to delete names, and for alteration successful an electors’ details.
“At artifact offices, block-level authorities officials are forcing BLOs to adhd names of dormant voters, fake voters, and Bangladeshi infiltrators,” Mr. Adhikari alleged, citing that arsenic the crushed wherefore ‘only’ 27.5 lakh enumeration forms person been rendered uncollectable connected grounds of an electors’ untraceability oregon ineligibility.
Earlier, the LoP had claimed that implicit a crore ‘fake’ voters would beryllium dropped from the database by the extremity of the SIR process successful the State.
Mr. Adhikari connected Saturday (November 29) besides welcomed the assignment of retired IAS serviceman Subrata Gupta arsenic Special Roll Observer and a delegation of 12 West Bengal cadre IAS officers arsenic predetermination rotation observers by the Election Commission of India. According to ECI’s notices, they person been tasked to oversee the mentation of the revised electoral rotation crossed each districts of West Bengal and “to guarantee that nary eligible idiosyncratic is near retired from enrolment and that nary ineligible elector is included successful the elector roll”.
The 12 predetermination rotation observers, on with peculiar rotation perceiver Mr. Gupta met with West Bengal’s Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal and different predetermination officials connected Saturday (November 29).
“This determination is astir welcome. The officers appointed to this task were not allowed to enactment successful West Bengal by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee… the squad fixed by Election Commission is precise efficient, I suggest they sojourn artifact offices immediately,” the LoP said.
He further said that these officers arsenic good arsenic BJP’s booth-level agents volition ‘fight to cleanable up’ the voters’ list.
‘ECI is simply a puppet of the BJP’
“The assignment of electoral rotation observers was done wrong hours of State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya publically stating that the Chief Election Commissioner should personally sojourn West Bengal to inspect SIR, and not show it from his air-conditioned office. This proves what we arsenic the Opposition person been saying clip and again, that the Election Commission is compromised and that it is simply a puppet of the BJP,” Trinamool Congress spokesperson Arup Chakraborty told The Hindu on Saturday (November 29).
He referred to the property league by Mr. Bhattacharya connected Friday (November 28) evening wherever helium said that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar indispensable travel to West Bengal and spot for himself nether what concern the BLOs are moving successful the State. “It is not capable to nonstop representatives here. The concern successful West Bengal is antithetic from different States,” the BJP State president had said.
Calling the LoP “a pathological liar”, Mr. Chakraborty besides questioned whether Mr. Adhikari is surveilling the interactions of the State’s apical bureaucrats.
