Trinamul ex-MP Jawhar Sircar urges poll body to rectify West Bengal voters’ list

Former Member of Parliament from West Bengal's ruling Trinamul Congress and retired bureaucrat Jawhar Sircar has stressed the removal of duplicate, dead, missing, and fake voters' names from the state's electoral rolls, claiming that the number could be anything between 70 lakh and 1.25 crore.

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The known Trinamul-baiter was responding to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asking the Election Commission to immediately cease its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electors' roll.

Speaking to the media on Monday in Siliguri on an administrative visit, CM Mamata Banerjee announced that she would continue to stand by the state's voters to "protect their rights", even at the cost of her "throat being slashed" for voicing protest against the exercise.

Urging that no genuine voter's name should be deleted, Sircar took to social media platform Facebook, where he added, "But @0.83% statistical rate of population growth, compounded, the 2002 voters list of 4.58 crores can go up to maximum 6 crores - not 7.64 crore that the 2025 list shows." "So, Duplicate, Dead, Missing, False voters' names must be REMOVED - which may be 70 lakhs to 1 crore or even 1.25 crore," he professed.