New Delhi:
Controversy over the Bengal election results – i.e., the removal of 90.8 lakh names after a special intensive revision of voter lists – rolled up to the Supreme Court Monday, with the Trinamool Congress alleging the deletion had materially affected counting in 31 seats the party won in 2021 but lost – to the eventual winners, the Bharatiya Janata Party – this year.
Party MP and senior advocate Kalyan Banerjee pointed out the number of voters cut in each of the 31 was more than the winning margin of Trinamool candidates in the last election.
In many cases the numbers were almost identical, he said.
A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi observed that if the margins in some seats were so narrow – that it could be swayed by votes from people whose appeals against electoral roll ejection are still pending – the aggrieved party may file a petition.
The court had offered such a provision in its last hearing. The Election Commission had also affirmed that petitions could be filed for specifically such instances
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