Conduct polls on 2024 electoral rolls: Dipankar
Dipankar Bhattacharya
, said here on Tuesday that the
Election Commission
(EC) should conduct the assembly elections on the basis of the state's electoral roll used during the 2024 parliamentary polls, as the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll has got mired in controversies.
"The voting right of each and every elector in the state should be guaranteed. The EC wants to meet every political party separately and has also sent a letter asking us to present our points of view, which we will do. Our singular demand is that the ongoing SIR should be withdrawn," Bhattacharya said while talking to reporters,
He took strong exception to the alleged "misinformation" being spread that foreign nationals are present in the state.
"It is a bland lie. Did anyone, or any political party, make such complaints regarding the electoral roll used during the 2024 parliamentary elections?" he asked.
"People of Musahar caste are found in
Bihar
in large numbers. Are they being presented as people from Myanmar? The Bihari migrant workers and Muslim migrant workers from West Bengal are being described as Bangladeshis," he alleged.
Pointing out that the visits of the CPI(ML) workers to houses have shown the EC is insisting that the documents have to be furnished in any case, if not in July then in August. "The documents that the poor can furnish are the domicile and caste certificates, but even these certificates are not being issued to them by the authorities concerned," he alleged.
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