If voter list is faulty, dissolve LS. Let's have fresh polls: Abhishek
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Kolkata:
TMC
national general secretary
Abhishek Banerjee
on Tuesday stepped up the ante against the SIR saying, "Let the Lok Sabha be dissolved. Let there be a nationwide SIR and hold fresh elections." He argued that if faulty voter lists require rectification, then 240 BJP MPs elected on the basis of those lists should step down first.
Banerjee also stated that if a single genuine voter is struck off the Bengal voter rolls, one lakh people would gherao the EC.
Speaking to reporters before leaving for Delhi, Banerjee said, "We had a few basic questions: Why in 2025 can we not have access to a digitised voter list? Why is the SIR being conducted forcefully, especially in opposition-governed states? Even if I grant the EC's claim that there are irregularities in the voter list, this is the same list used in the 2024 LS elections, based on which the current PM and govt were elected.
If there are irregularities now, the entire Union ministry must resign."
"Even if I assume the EC is correct, then the first step must be to initiate criminal proceedings against the then chief election commissioner, Rajiv Kumar, and file an FIR. Because under his vigilance and supervision, the 2024 Lok Sabha elections were conducted, over 240 BJP MPs were elected, on the same irregular rolls. The PM, the President and all Union ministers must resign," he added.
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"Let BJP start, we will all resign.
Let Lok Sabha be dissolved. Conduct SIR nationwide. Then hold fresh polls," he said.
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He also questioned why only BJP is publicly defending the EC on SIR, and not others. "And why should the BJP defend the EC? The EC is supposed to be a neutral body. If it is truly neutral, it should sit down with MPs," he said.
"Mamata Banerjee was the first to flag this issue on Feb 27 at Netaji Indoor. The same person, with the same EPIC number, is included in the voter lists of Gujarat, UP and Bengal. Congress party's media conference showed conclusively that the same person voted in Varanasi and Karnataka on the same day," he added
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