Kolkata: "We will fight EC's dirty game till the end," Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra said on Friday, hours after the party told the Supreme Court that the Election Commission had asked judicial officers not to accept Aadhaar cards as valid identity proofs in "linkage cases". "People should know what the EC is trying to do behind their back. We fought against this," the MP said.
Explaining what the party is opposing, Moitra said, "All Bengal voters are aware that when, on Dec 16, the SIR draft list was published, 1.3 crore people who were mapped with the 2002 rolls were clubbed under logical discrepancy and made to stand in queues and harassed in the name of SIR hearings."
"During the hearing, EROs were told by the EC that if a person is mapped with the 2002 SIR rolls, they will only have to produce Aadhaar to include their names on the voter list. Based on this, such documents were provided during the SIR hearings. Around 80% of the people did this. A day before yesterday, when the EC was imparting training to the judicial officers, page 10 of their training manual said that, in linkage cases, Aadhaar was unacceptable. This was only an attempt to exclude mapped voters," Moitra alleged.