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NEW DELHI: West Bengal person of absorption Suvendu Adhikari connected Sunday deed retired astatine main curate Mamata Banerjee, powerfully rejecting her allegations astir the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.In a missive addressed to the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, Adhikari highlighted that Mamata Banerjee’s missive to the EC “appears to beryllium a hopeless and politically motivated effort to derail the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, which is simply a important measurement toward ensuring free, fair, and transparent elections successful our state.”"This process, undertaken by the Election Commission of India (ECI) with utmost diligence, has evidently exposed vulnerabilities successful the electoral rolls that endanger the prospects of her Trinamool Congress (TMC) party, prompting specified unfounded outbursts," Adhikari added.
Adhikari dismissed Mamata’s claims that the Special Intensive Revision is “unplanned, insensitive, and inhuman” arsenic exaggerated and politically motivated.He said allegations of harassment, intimidation, and excessive workload connected citizens are unsubstantiated. He besides criticized her attribution of 77 deaths, 4 termination attempts, and 17 hospitalizations to the exercise, calling the figures fabricated oregon opportunistically linked to unrelated incidents.
“There is nary verifiable grounds connecting these tragic events to the electoral revision; instead, it reflects a signifier of scapegoating cardinal institutions to disguise section governance lapses. The SIR is simply a verification process, not a punitive one, and immoderate genuine hardships tin beryllium addressed done the appeals mechanics already successful place. To sensationalize specified matters for governmental summation undermines the gravity of existent quality tragedies and disrespects the affected families,” Adhikari said. Adhikari defended the Election Commission’s handling of the Special Intensive Revision, saying its actions bespeak impartiality, not overreach, and guarantee that nary 1 is supra scrutiny. He called it selective and misleading to statement definite cases arsenic a “profound shame,” noting the broader extremity is to support electoral integrity for all.He besides claimed that concerns implicit women changing surnames aft matrimony and the attraction of migrant workers are overstated. Adhikari further rejected claims of selective targeting oregon “logical discrepancies” successful definite constituencies, emphasizing that the process is data-driven and azygous statewide."This missive from the Chief Minister is simply a frantic bid to sabotage the SIR, arsenic it has inflicted irreparable harm to the TMC's prospects by exposing the rot successful the elector rolls; rot that has allegedly been nurtured done years of unchecked additions of bogus voters, including infiltrators from crossed borders.
Halting oregon diluting this workout would betray the antiauthoritarian ideals enshrined successful our Constitution and disenfranchise genuine voters who merit cleanable elections," Adhikari said.Mamata Banerjee had earlier criticised the ongoing SIR successful the state, alleging that a process intended to beryllium constructive has already resulted successful 77 deaths and near respective others hospitalized.Mamata alleged that the ECI carried retired the process without due planning, creating an ambiance of fearfulness and intimidation. "This is attributed to fear, intimidation and disproportionate workload owed to unplanned workout undertaken by ECI," the main curate wrote successful her missive addressed to the Chief Election Commissioner.
