Trinamool claims to find Bengal voters who are Bihar voters as well
Telegraph | 2 April 2026
The Trinamool on Wednesday claimed to have found five voters in Bengal who are also registered as voters in Bihar, and alleged that it was the BJP’s doing.
“The pattern, the execution, the beneficiary are the same,” Derek O’Brien, the Trinamool’s leader in the Rajya Sabha, said in a news conference at Trinamool Bhawan. “They had used the same strategy in Haryana, Maharashtra and Bihar. In Bengal, they are getting caught.
“They are not doing this to win. They are doing this to avoid a humiliating defeat in Bengal,” he added.
The five voters Bengal’s ruling party cited as duplicate are named Sulekha Kumari, Umesh Yadav, Shyam Bahadur Yadav, Dolly Devi and Kumud Singh.
O’Brien said Sulekha Kumari was registered as a voter in Bihar’s Baniapur as well as Bengal’s Durgapur Purba, with two voter cards.
In another case, the father son-duo of Ramesh and Umesh are registered as voters in two constituencies in Bihar, Raghunathpur and Daraunda, the Trinamool leader claimed.
“In other records one Parameswar is registered as Umesh’s father,” said Bratya Basu, state minister and Trinamool nominee from Dum Dum.
“They are voting in multiple booths in Bihar and Bengal. We are not sure who the father is, and who’s the son. The Election Commission should have been looking for these voters, instead Trinamool Congress has to do it,” he added.
The Trinamool said enumeration forms tracing the Bihar constituency details of Kumud Singh and Dolly Devi have been submitted to the Election Commission.
Since Monday, the Trinamool has been alleging that Form-6 – for inclusion of new voters – submissions are being made in bulk to the chief electoral officer’s (CEO’s) office.
Poll panel sources said form submissions do not automatically mean new voters in this election.
Trinamool national general secretary and Lok Sabha leader Abhishek Banerjee had met Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal on Monday evening.
On Tuesday, too, the Trinamool had claimed to have caught men carrying piles of Form-6 to the CEO’s office at the Shipping Corporation of India building on Strand Road in Kolkata.
For the Bengal Assembly polls scheduled for later this month, the commission has published the names of 6.44 crore electors in the final electoral rolls. Another 60.06 lakh voters were marked under adjudication and of them 47 lakh cases have been disposed of.
The commission is yet to release the exact number of voters included in the voters’ list among those adjudicated.
Last year, Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi had held multiple press conferences to “expose voters with multiple voter cards in different parts of the country. The Congress in alliance with the RJD and the Left parties had fought the 2025 Bihar polls with a “vote theft” campaign but received a drubbing.
“But this time they will learn a lesson. Bengal is not Haryana, Maharashtra or Bihar,” said minister Basu.