NEW DELHI: A Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) delegation led by Union Minister and West Bengal BJP President Sukanta Majumdar met with the Election Fee in Delhi to file a criticism on the alleged faux voter concern. BJP Co-incharge for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, who was a part of the delegation, stated that the leaders emphasised the necessity for an audit and voter roll revision.
Chatting with mediapersons, he stated that the delegation identified to the Election Fee that there are about 8,415 voters with related EPIC numbers. “In the present day a delegation of BJP West Bengal met the Election Fee. We emphasised the necessity for an audit and voter roll revision. We have now apprised the Election Fee that there are greater than 13 lakh duplicate voters in Bengal,” Malviya stated.
“We have now additionally identified to the Election Fee that there are about 8,415 voters with related EPIC numbers… During the last 14 years, Mamata Banerjee and her authorities have systematically infiltrated the voter roll with unlawful Bangladeshis and Rohingyas, he added. “We have now additionally impressed upon the Election Fee to have a look at cleansing up the voter roll and figuring out these unlawful voters in order that our democratic course of shouldn’t be compromised. We additionally introduced the Election Fee’s consideration to the violence that marked the electoral train in West Bengal. The Election Fee has assured us that they may look into our calls for and take applicable steps,” the BJP chief said.
This comes amid the opposition events questioning the electoral course of and voter record manipulation. On March 6, a delegation of the Trinamool Congress met Election Fee officers in Kolkata relating to their complaints about the identical Elector Photograph Id Card (EPIC) quantity. Earlier, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee shaped a committee to verify the alleged irregularities within the voters’ record in each district of West Bengal. She alleged that the BJP had added faux voters to the voters’ record to control elections in Maharashtra and Delhi, they usually have been making an attempt the identical trick in West Bengal.
In the meantime, the Election Fee of India (ECI) has invited options from all nationwide and state political events by April 30 to deal with any unresolved electoral points on the stage of Electoral Registration Officers (ERO), District Election Officers (DEO), or Chief Electoral Officers (CEO). In a letter issued to political events, the Fee additionally proposed an interplay with social gathering presidents and senior leaders to additional strengthen electoral processes consistent with established legal guidelines.
“Earlier, throughout an ECI convention final week, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar had instructed CEOs, DEOs and EROs of all states/UTs to carry common interactions with political events, resolve any options obtained in such conferences strictly throughout the authorized framework already in place and submit an motion taken report back to the Fee by March 31, 2025. The Fee additionally urged political events to proactively use this mechanism of decentralized engagement,” the letter from the ECI learn.
In the present day, a Biju Janata Dal (BJD) delegation arrived on the Election Fee Workplace in Delhi. They submitted a follow-up memorandum on variances within the votes forged within the 2024 Parliament and Meeting Elections in Odisha to the Election Fee of India. Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, whereas talking within the Lok Sabha on Monday, said that the Home wants to debate the difficulty of the voters record.
