Kolkata, February 28 – The final list of voters in West Bengal, as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state, was published on Saturday.
According to statistics, the names of approximately 47,000 voters were removed from the list for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's constituency, while the same figure for the constituency of the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, stood at around 11,000.
According to figures from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal, in the case of the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in South Kolkata, where the legislator is the Chief Minister, the total number of names removed from the final voter list is 47,111.
Similarly, in the case of the Nandigram Assembly constituency in East Midnapore district, where the legislator is the Leader of the Opposition, the total number of names removed from the final voter list is 10,994.
In the case of Bhabanipur, the number of voters whose documents are currently under judicial review is 14,154, which means that more names from that constituency are likely to be removed at the end of the judicial review process.
In the case of Nandigram, the number of voters whose documents are currently under judicial review is 8,819.
At the time the report was filed, there was no reaction from anyone in Trinamool Congress regarding the large number of voters already removed from Bhabanipur. However, LoP Adhikari commented on this, saying that the deletion of such a large number of voters from Bhabanipur gives the Chief Minister enough reason to be concerned.
"In Bhabanipur, there are not enough voters left who can ensure the Chief Minister's victory in the upcoming Assembly elections," the BJP leader said.
To recall, in the 2021 Assembly elections, the Chief Minister contested from Nandigram. However, after being defeated by Adhikari, she successfully contested in a by-election from the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency and retained her position as Chief Minister for the third consecutive term.
