TMC flags ‘BJP plot’ as voters, booths ‘vanish’ from ’02 EC list
Times of India | 31 October 2025TMC claimed that the 2002 list uploaded by the EC on its website and the original 2002 final voter list hard copy have several mismatches.
"This is silent, invisible rigging. In Cooch Behar's booth no 303 of Khapaidanga village, the 2002 list had 717 voters; in the list uploaded, there are just 140. In another instance (booth no 2/244), the names stop at 416; entries from 417 to 841 have disappeared without a trace. They all couldn't have died together and serially!" Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh told reporters.
The party also alleged that at Ashoknagar assembly constituency's Guma-1 gram panchayat under Habra-2 block, booth number 159 shows zero registered voters on the EC's website, while the hard copy of the 2002 list had 900 names. In Alipurduar's Majherdabri, the names of the BLO's father, mother and brother have been deleted from the voter list, TMC claimed. In booth number 61 of the same district, entries from serial numbers 343 to 414 are missing.
"Where did these names go?...In the names which have been eliminated, there are people of all faiths. This problem is not just for people of one religion, it's a problem for all," Ghosh said. Terming the eliminations a "pre-meditated conspiracy which BJP hatched in its party office", Ghosh added: "BJP has been constantly claiming that nearly 1 crore voters will be eliminated after SIR. How are they saying this?"
"We are receiving complaints from different areas. Our leadership is assessing the same and accordingly, steps will be taken," Ghosh replied to media queries on actions taken by the party.
Meanwhile, he asked supporters and workers of TMC to keep an eye on each household to ensure that no "legitimate" voter names were struck off the voter list.
State finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya, referring to the suicide of Panihati resident Pradeep Kar, said: "People who have always wanted to deprive Bengal want to win elections by creating an environment of fear... They are angry that they couldn't do anything in 2021... now they have come down to doing this." She said that the alleged irregularities boomeranged on BJP as well. "In several areas, even BJP supporters have found their names missing.
This has triggered resentment in their own ranks," Bhattacharya claimed.
