340 Muslim voters under scrutiny deleted from Bengal booth, BLO also in list

A major controversy erupted in West Bengal’s Basirhat North Assembly constituency after 340 voters from a single booth were removed from the electoral roll in the recently published supplementary list. Alam announced his plans to take the matter to a tribunal for legal redress.

• The dispute centred on Booth No 5 under the Begumpur Bibipur Gram Panchayat in Basirhat Block II, which has a total of 992 registered voters.
• Although 18 of these cases were resolved in the draft list, the remaining 340 were placed under adjudication until the supplementary list was published on the 23rd, at which point they were all moved to the deleted category.
• One of the affected voters, Kajirul Mondal, pointed out that although the Election Commission requires only one of eleven valid documents, many submitted three or four, yet their names were still purged.

Watch next: Alam mentioned that his attempts to seek a resolution from the Block Development Officer of Basirhat Block II were met with the response that no further action could be taken, while the Electoral Registration Officer remained unreachable.