West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Directs TMC To Act Against 'Fake Voters' In Closed-Door Meet

Kolkata: Following instruction of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the core committee of Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday held a closed-door meeting over cleaning of ‘fake’ voters at Trinamool Bhawan.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has formed a core committee to scrutinise the electoral roll in Bengal and this team met today to finalize the strategy to scrutinise the review process.

Notably, TMC national secretary Abhishek Banerjee who skipped the meeting at TMC Bhawan will hold a virtual conference with the committee and the district president over the same issue likely on March 15.

TMC MLA Sujit Bose said that he along with few others have got the charge of North 24 Parganas, Jalpaiguri and Bankura.

“We have already hit the streets and we will be on the streets till the voter lists are clean. We will inspect whether any voter who has left the state is still featuring in the voters lists or not or any new voters names are missing and then accordingly we will act,” said Bose.

Mussaraf Hussain, TMC MLA said that he will work in accordance with what the core committee has decided.

On February 27, the Chief Minister had instructed the core committee to submit a detailed report over the voter list issue within ten days.

Meanwhile, despite the Election Commission’s statement dismissing the allegations as baseless, a TMC delegation visited the state Election Commission over the voter list issue.

TMC MLA and minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said, “Unique numeric code should be given to every voter instead of alpha code which is illegal.”

The ruling party had initiated a door-to-door review of the electoral roll and several leaders were seen visiting constituencies to review the same physically. However, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president and MoS Sukanta Majumdar called it ‘drama’.