Dual voter ID row: EC notice to Prashant Kishor over name in Bihar, Bengal rolls

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission connected Tuesday issued a announcement to Jan Suraaj laminitis Prashant Kishor implicit his treble enrollment arsenic a elector successful 2 antithetic states -- Bihar and West Bengal. The canvass assemblage has sought clarification from the canvass strategist-turned-politician wrong 3 days.

According to authoritative documents cited by PTI quality agency, Kishor is listed arsenic a elector astatine 121 Kalighat Road successful Kolkata, the code of the Trinamool Congress office successful the Bhabanipur constituency -- the spot represented by West Bengal main curate and TMC person Mamata Banerjee. His designated polling booth determination is St Helen School connected B Ranishankari Lane, officials said.In Bihar, however, Kishor is registered arsenic a elector successful the Kargahar assembly conception nether the Sasaram parliamentary constituency successful Rohtas district, with Madhya Vidyalaya, Konar listed arsenic his polling station.Kishor had antecedently served arsenic a cardinal governmental advisor for the TMC during the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections, earlier turning his absorption to his ain governmental question connected crushed turf, Jan Suraaj, successful Bihar.