Mamata Banerjee accuses BJP, Election Commission of manipulating voter lists in Delhi, Maharashtra

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of adding fake voters to electoral lists to win the recent Assembly polls in Delhi and Maharashtra, reported The Telegraph.

Banerjee also accused the Hindutva party of hiring two agencies, Association of Billion Minds and India 360, to allegedly add residents of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana to West Bengal’s voter lists.

“The people working for these agencies have not conducted any field surveys,” Banerjee said at a meeting of Trinamool Congress workers in Kolkata, brandishing what she claimed was a list fake voters who had obtained election identity cards in West Bengal.

“The cat is out of the bag now,” Banerjee was quoted as saying by The Telegraph. “This is how the BJP is manipulating the voters’ list with the blessings of the Election Commission. This has been exposed now. It is your responsibility to stop fake voters being included in the voters’ list.”

The chief minister asserted that she would not allow this alleged voter manipulation to take place in West Bengal, which will have its next Assembly election in 2026.

“If the BJP succeeds in its nefarious plans that would mean the end of Bengal’s culture,” Banerjee said. “We respect guests, but we won’t allow outsiders to occupy Bengal....

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