Abhishek holds virtual meet with leaders before state polls

A 10-minute video was played to train the leaders and dates given when the zilla, Anchaland ward committees of the party would be formed for cleansing the voter list of bogus and ghost voters

- STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE

Taking a leaf out of the chief minister and the Trinamul Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee's book, her nephew and party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee today held a virtual meet with party leaders on Saturday. He is supposed to have firmed up strategies to go whole hog to cleanse voters' list of alleged fake voters by restructuring committees in the districts and block level.

Mr Banerjee's virtual meeting had over 4,500 Trinamul leaders in attendance, where he asked party leaders to remain circumspect while accomplishing the mission of cleansing voters' list.

"In Delhi, where the Assembly polls took place after seven months of the Lok Sabha polls, about 4.12 lakh new voters were added by manipulation in the voters' list. In Maharashtra, 39 lakh voters were added in four months, of which maximum were fake voters to win polls.