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Violence erupted extracurricular the Chief Electoral Officer’s bureau successful Kolkata on Tuesday (March 31, 2026), with clashes betwixt Trinamool Congress and BJP workers over allegations that Form 6, utilized to use for the caller inclusion of names successful the electoral roll, is being submitted in ample numbers successful West Bengal.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote a missive to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar about the issue. “BJP agents person been caught red-handed flooding the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal with thousands of fraudulent Form 6 applications to smuggle non-residents and outsiders into Bengal’s electoral rolls. This is an effort astatine elector hijacking,” Ms. Banerjee alleged, calling for the Election Commission to punish specified actions which are “illegal, unconstitutional, and fundamentally undemocratic successful nature.”
In effect to the allegations, CEO Manoj Kumar Agarwal said: “This is not my work. I cannot support checking who is bringing what into my office. Should I behaviour elections successful the full State oregon support doing this?”
Bulk submissions
An organisation of booth level officers (BLOs) supported by the State’s ruling Trinamool Congress alleged that it had caught a BJP idiosyncratic carrying implicit 400 Form 6 applications into the CEO, WB bureau successful Kolkata. The BLOs and TMC workers staged a protestation extracurricular the CEO’s office, flagging this issue. BJP workers besides reached the spot and engaged with the TMC workers, starring to a heated exchange.
TMC protestors alleged that the BJP was trying to enrol voters from extracurricular Bengal to power the polls successful its favour. Central forces and section constabulary were some deployed to the spot to bring the tense concern nether control. Police, equipped with batons, charged protestors successful a bid to de-escalate the heated scuffle betwixt the enactment workers.
This came a time aft TMC wide caput Abhishek Banerjee sent a ceremonial ailment to the CEO, WB connected Monday night, alleging that the ECI is changing the demography of Bengal by including voters from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh successful the State’s electoral rolls. He claimed that the BJP had submitted at slightest 30,000 Form 6 applications successful bulk.
‘Attack against canvass officers’
BJP MP Sukanta Majumdar disclaimed responsibility, saying that these complaints were a substance for the Election Commission. “I bash not person immoderate accusation if the BJP has made immoderate specified [Form 6] submissions,” Mr. Majumdar said.
Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari lodged a ceremonial ailment against Ms. Banerjee for provoking voters against the Central forces. “She is asking the women of the location to combat the Central forces. This is simply a nonstop onslaught against the officers engaged successful predetermination work,” Mr. Adhikari alleged.
Appellate tribunals open
Meanwhile, the EC has started accepting online applications by voters who person been deleted from the last elector database but want to contention the determination successful an appellate tribunal.
Of the 60 lakh voters who were placed nether adjudication during the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, at least 13 lakh names person been deleted among the 32 lakh disposed cases, the CEO bureau had confirmed past week. These radical tin entreaty to the tribunal for reconsideration of their cases. Though multiple supplementary lists person been published, the implicit supplementary database for the 60 lakh voters are yet to beryllium made public.
