Kolkata: TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday said that the Election Commission must come out with the number of illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingyas out of the 58.20 lakh names deleted after the publication of draft electoral rolls in West Bengal under the ongoing SIR.
Alleging that Bengal was being targeted selectively by the Centre since the TMC won the 2021 assembly polls in the state, he claimed that the “agenda is to harass the people of the state”.
The Trinamool Congress national general secretary also said that Bengal’s population is 10.05 crore, and the number of voter deletions in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise is 58.20 lakh.
He remarked that this number represents the lowest percentage of deletions among states undergoing Special Intensive Revision exercises, at just 5.79% of Bengal’s total population of 10.05 crore.
Banerjee further accused the central government of selectively targeting West Bengal after the TMC’s victory in the 2021 assembly elections. He claimed that the ongoing voter roll revision is an attempt by the Centre to harass the state’s residents.
