West Bengal BJP Delegation Meets Election Fee, Factors Out Want For Audit Of Voter Roll Revision | India Information
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 subject. BJP Co-incharge for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, who was a part of the delegation, mentioned that the leaders emphasised the necessity for an audit and voter roll revision.
Chatting with mediapersons, he mentioned 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 now have apprised the Election Fee that there are greater than 13 lakh duplicate voters in Bengal,” Malviya mentioned.
“We now have additionally identified to the Election Fee that there are about 8,415 voters with related EPIC numbers… Over the past 14 years, Mamata Banerjee and her authorities have systematically infiltrated the voter roll with unlawful Bangladeshis and Rohingyas, he added. “We now have additionally impressed upon the Election Fee to take a look at cleansing up the voter roll and figuring out these unlawful voters in order that our democratic course of will not 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’ll 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 checklist manipulation. On March 6, a delegation of the Trinamool Congress met Election Fee officers in Kolkata concerning their complaints about the identical Elector Picture Id Card (EPIC) quantity. Earlier, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee fashioned a committee to verify the alleged irregularities within the voters’ checklist in each district of West Bengal. She alleged that the BJP had added faux voters to the voters’ checklist to control elections in Maharashtra and Delhi, and so they had been attempting the identical trick in West Bengal.
In the meantime, the Election Fee of India (ECI) has invited solutions from all nationwide and state political events by April 30 to handle any unresolved electoral points on the degree 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 celebration presidents and senior leaders to additional strengthen electoral processes in step 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 solutions acquired 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 problem of the voters checklist.
