NEW DELHI: The Special Intensive Revision of voter lists in West Bengal is almost at an end after a rigorous four-month process, but the fates of many remain undecided. The final voters’ list has over 63 lakh deletions – which comprises 9 per cent of the electorate and over 60 lakh voters (8.5 per cent) have been placed “under adjudication”. This latter category contains two ministers of the state government, several MLAs of the ruling Trinamool Congress and the state’s Chief Secretary Nandini Chakraborty.
State minister Ghulam Rabbani, who is under adjudication, said he has already contested the elections from the state four times and has served as a minister twice.
Posting his part of the SIR final list, published Saturday, Rabbani – the minister of environment and Non-Conventional and Renewable Energy Sources – in a post on X, said, “In an unprecedented ugly move by Election Commission in collision with their Delhi masters have moved my voter id ‘under adjudication'”.
“I have contested WB assembly elections in 2009, 2011, 2016 & 2021, served as minister in govt for two terms. My late father & ancestors were Indian Citizen & myself at age of 56 years have been regularly voting in WB since completing my education from AMU in early ”90s,” he added.
Two-time Trinamool MLA from Jangipur, Zakir Hussain, who is also an industrialist from the area, claimed that his name is still “under adjudication” even though he provided all the necessary information during the hearing.
