Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Saturday alleged that the state administration was involved in manipulating the electoral rolls during the ongoing SIR, and that senior officials were personally intervening to retain ineligible names in the voter list.
He said the Election Commission (EC) should have acted “a little more swiftly” during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Speaking to reporters in Siliguri in north Bengal, Adhikari said, “The EC depends on the state machinery, which is indulged in fraud.”
“The state machinery is trying to include the names of Bangladeshi infiltrators in the voter list,” he alleged.
Adhikari claimed that senior officials were making direct calls to district-level authorities, including the district election officers, electoral registration officers and assistant electoral registration officers to ensure certain names remain on the voter rolls “in a wrong manner”.
“These allegedly …​Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Saturday alleged that the state administration was involved in manipulating the electoral rolls during the ongoing SIR, and that senior officials were personally intervening to retain ineligible names in the voter list.
He said the Election Commission (EC) should have acted “a little more swiftly” during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Speaking to reporters in Siliguri in north Bengal, Adhikari said, “The EC depends on the state machinery, which is indulged in fraud.”
“The state machinery is trying to include the names of Bangladeshi infiltrators in the voter list,” he alleged.
Adhikari claimed that senior officials were making direct calls to district-level authorities, including the district election officers, electoral registration officers and assistant electoral registration officers to ensure certain names remain on the voter rolls “in a wrong manner”.
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