Kolkata: A few hundred Aadhaar cards, voters’ photo identity cards and Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee (MNREG) Scheme job cards were recovered from several Trinamool Congress offices in West Bengal on Sunday by local residents and Bharatiya Janata Party workers who alleged that these were forcefully taken from voters before previous elections.BJP alleges fake votes by TMC as documents found at party officesGenuine voters were forced to stay home on election days, they alleged.In one of the incidents, more than 100 Aadhaar cards were found at a TMC office at Basanti Debi Colony in the Bidhan Nagar assembly constituency. A number of these cards were issued in 2021, when the TMC won 213 of the 294 seats in Bengal against the BJP’s 77.“Most of the cards were still in sealed postal envelopes, indicating they were not delivered to the recipients. Local people also found some land deeds locked in a briefcase,” a Bidhan Nagar police officer said, requesting anonymity.Dr Sharadwat Mukherjee, an oncologist and newly-elected BJP legislator from Bidhan Nagar said: “Genuine voters were threatened and stopped from exercising their right to franchise. We repeatedly said this during our campaign. Our position is vindicated today.”Former fire services minister Sujit Bose, who won the Bidhan Nagar seat four times in a row since 2009 before being defeated, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on May 11 on charges of corruption in civic body recruitments and remanded in the federal agency’s custody.Chameli Naskar, the TMC councillor from the area where the party office is located, claimed she knew nothing about the Aadhaar cards.“The allegation is made up. I don’t think our party can stoop to such level. Let there be an investigation,” Naskar said.In a second incident, a few hundred voter ID cards were found lying in a field in the Kirnahar area of Birbhum district, a TMC bastion for 15 years.“Local people informed the authorities and the cards were seized,” a police officer said.BJP state vice-president Jagannath Chattopadhyay, who won Birbhum’s Siuri seat, said, “There must be thousands of such cards lying in TMC offices across the district. TMC established a reign of terror but the tables have turned now. Law will take its own course.”In a third incident, a few hundred MNREG job cards and voter ID cards were recovered by BJP supporters from a TMC office at Garbeta in West Midnapore district.Palash Das, a local BJP worker, said, “Such cards will be found in all TMC offices if there is a search operation.”No district TMC leader commented on the recoveries.On Sunday afternoon, BJP state president Samik Bhattacharya addresed voters at South 24 Parganas district’s Falta assembly seat where a repolling will be held on May 21 after allegations of threats by TMC MLA Jehangir Khan during the April 29 election.Saidul Khan, the MLA’s brother-in-law, was arrested on Friday on charges of assault and attempted murder.“People of Falta could never cast the ballot freely. Before the 2021 elections, announcements were made through loudspeakers in mosques, instructing people to stay home. Fear no more. The BJP government is here. TMC will soon be a thing of the past,” Bhattacharya told voters at the rally.On Friday night, residents of Hingalganj in North 24 Parganas district handed Saidul Gazi, an alleged infiltrator from Satkhira, Bangladesh, over to the police, stating he had cast his vote in the recent election.“Jainal Abedin, a local TMC gram panchayat member, gave me Aadhaar and voter ID cards declaring his own parents as mine,” Gazi told the local media before the police arrested him.Police said Abedin was absconding.HT tried to reach out to TMC state vice president Jay Prakash Majumdar and state general secretary Kunal Ghosh for comments but neither of them answered the calls.