The Trinamool Congress (TMC) Saturday alleged that the BJP was making an attempt to win elections in Opposition-ruled states by enlisting ‘ghost voters’ with the assistance of the Election Fee.
Attacking the BJP, the TMC wrote, “4,500 Ghost Voters Added to Bengal’s Electoral Rolls? In simply 7 months because the Lok Sabha elections, Champahati’s voter depend (in South 24 Parganas) has surged by 4,500, with many new entries traced again to Murshidabad, Malda, and Siliguri, somewhat than native residents. Shockingly, some cubicles have seen 200-300 new registrations, with a number of voters listed underneath the identical telephone quantity!
“This isn’t a clerical error; @BJP4India is making an attempt to copy the ‘Delhi Mannequin’ proper right here in Bengal. Is @ECISVEEP even monitoring this blatant manipulation? If this goes unchallenged, the integrity of elections throughout India will likely be at grave threat. Democracy is underneath THREAT!”
Earlier, Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee had raised the problem of ‘ghost voters’ and ordered her get together leaders to take motion to delete such voters from the electoral rolls.
Banerjee mentioned: “Why ought to the voter roll be made on-line? How did Maharashtra’s voter checklist enhance by 40 lakh? They’re making an attempt the identical in Bengal, making an attempt so as to add outsiders to our voter checklist. We won’t permit this. What others can’t do, we are able to. We’ve uncovered their lies.”
Bengal Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay mentioned the TMC was getting ready to get the names on the revised checklist of voters verified.
Chatterjee mentioned, “I shall convene a gathering inside a day or two and in addition write to the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on alleged bogus voters crowding the voters’ checklist. I personally will go to the CEO’s workplace and confirm the names. No names, with out correct verifications, can be allowed to be registered. No on-line registration of voters will likely be tolerated.”
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Sources within the TMC mentioned leaders in every district have been alerted on the problem and so they have been requested to convey any discrepancy to the discover of the district administration.
Reacting to the TMC’s allegations, BJP state president Sukanta Majumder mentioned the TMC itself was concerned within the inclusion of the names of pretend voters.
He wrote on social media, “Pretend voters, rigged elections, and a damaged democracy – @MamataOfficial’s TMC has mastered the artwork of electoral fraud. What number of extra faux votes will it take earlier than Bengal wakes as much as this corruption? @AITCofficial”.
