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‘Dead’ in rolls, TMC councillor demands own rites
The Free Press Journal - Mumbai
|December 17, 2025
A Trinamool Congress councillor on Tuesday walked into a crematorium near Kolkata and demanded that his last rites be performed, claiming that the Election Commission listed him among the “dead” in the draft electoral rolls.
A booth-wise list of the deceased and migrated voters was released ahead of West Bengal's draft electoral rolls earlier in the day.
Surya Dey, the TMC councillor of Dankuni Municipality's Ward 18, said that while checking the lists linked to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, he claimed his name figured among the "dead", though he had filled and submitted his enumeration form to the booth-level officer.
This story is from the December 17, 2025 edition of The Free Press Journal - Mumbai.
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