Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Suvendu Adhikari on Monday (November 17, 2025) claimed that the Indian Muslims, particularly of West Bengal, have not ‘fall in Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s trap’ and have accepted the Special Intensive Revision of the State’s electoral rolls ‘as an exercise, and not a political matter.’
“Mamata Banerjee failed to instigate fear this time, the way she did during the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). After the distribution of enumeration forms, Indian Muslims have realised they have nothing to fear. They have understood SIR is not a political matter, but an exercise that has happened in the country multiple times before,” Mr Adhikari said.
In a presentation to local press persons at Kolkata’s BJP Party Office on Monday (November 17, the LoP also displayed alleged instances of duplicate voters. Earlier, a delegation of BJP comprising Mr Adhikari submitted hard copies and digital evidence of over 13 lakh ‘multiple duplicate voters’ in West Bengal’s voters’ lists.
“We have submitted names of 13.25 duplicate voters, at least half of them will get deleted… In case of dead voters, we have found a minimum of 50 to 150 dead voters in each of 20 polling booths in 20 assembly constituencies,” the BJP MLA from Nandigram said.
