Abhishek presents 10 ‘dead voters’ at Cooch Behar rally: ‘BJP’s stooge EC’ | Kolkata News
TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday presented 10 more people, who were allegedly declared dead in the draft electoral rolls during the SIR exercise in West Bengal, at a rally here, and accused the Election Commission of taking away voting rights of citizens through the ongoing exercise. He also alleged that the BJP-led Centre has not been keeping its electoral promises, and said the fight in the upcoming assembly elections is between the people of the state and the saffron party. Calling the 10 people on the stage during the rally, Banerjee said, “All of them were born and brought up in Cooch Behar, but they were declared dead by the BJP’s stooge Election Commission,” Banerjee alleged. The names of these 10 people were “struck off the electoral rolls in the ongoing SIR”, he said.Earlier this month, Banerjee had paraded two men and a woman, allegedly marked as dead voters in the draft electoral rolls, at a rally in South 24 Parganas district. Claiming that around 3.5 lakh people of Cooch Behar district alone have …
