Trinamool cries foul over tea garden workers struck off electoral rolls or kept in adjudication list

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Workers pluck beverage  leaves amid misty rain, astatine  a beverage  property  successful  Kalimpong, West Bengal. File

Workers pluck beverage leaves amid misty rain, astatine a beverage property successful Kalimpong, West Bengal. File | Photo Credit: PTI

The Trinamool Congress connected Tuesday (March 3, 2026) claimed that thousands of adivasi beverage plot workers and a important conception of the Rajbanshi radical successful North Bengal person seen their names either deleted oregon unjustly placed nether “adjudication” successful the last electoral roll.

Describing the improvement arsenic a governmental conspiracy by the BJP, the Trinamool Congress said that the power of the BJP is eroding successful the belts successful the beverage gardens.

“Faced with an impending defeat, they present look determined to suppress the votes of the beverage workers and tribal communities. We basal firmly with each Adivasi household and each morganatic voter. We volition situation this injustice done each antiauthoritarian transmission available, due to the fact that ideology belongs to the people, not to immoderate partisan agenda,” the Trinamool Congress posted connected societal media.

The allegation by the Trinamool comes aft the release of the draught electoral rotation of astir 7.04 crore voters successful the State aft the completion of 4 period agelong SIR. The electoral rotation includes astir 60 lakh electors who are nether adjudication.

In January, the ECI allowed records of Tea Gardens and Cinchona plantations arsenic documents for SIR 2026. The BJP enactment had raised the request to see records of Tea gardens and Cinchona plantations successful the SIR documents. BJP has comparatively a stronger power successful North Bengal than successful South Bengal and is expected to execute amended successful the ensuing assembly polls. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee volition beryllium connected a dharna against ECI connected March 6 successful Kolkata.

Former West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar stating that the dates of the predetermination should beryllium announced aft adjudication of 60 lakh electors is completed. Expressing heavy interest implicit the omission of a ample fig of names from the draught elector database the Congress person said that it was the law work of the Election Commission to guarantee that nary genuine Indian national is deprived of the close to vote.

Published - March 04, 2026 07:06 americium IST

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