Leader of Opposition of West Bengal Assembly and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday (November 29, 2025) accused the Mamata Banerjee government of ‘tainting’ the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the State’s electoral rolls by allegedly influencing booth-level officers (BLOs) to add or retain names of ineligible voters during the ongoing enumeration phase.
“So far [to] my knowledge, 1 crore 20 lakh [enumeration forms] have not been digitised, and of the forms that have been digitised, around 27.5 lakh names have been dropped. But this figure is too low. The names of many dead voters and illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators are being retained under the leadership of the tainted, corrupt Chief Secretary Manoj Pant,” Mr. Adhikari said.
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The BJP MLA from Nandigram also said that the party has the power of ‘Forms 6, 7, and 8’ to ensure ineligible voters are struck off during SIR, after the draft electoral roll is published on December 9. Forms 6, 7, and 8 refer to application forms for the inclusion of new voters, raising objections or proposals to delete names, and for change in an electors’ details.
