New Delhi:
A 10-member Trinamool Congress delegation led by Abhishek Banerjee met Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in Delhi Tuesday to complain of the large-scale manipulation of electoral rolls during the voter re-verification drive in Bengal.
The meeting comes amid escalating confrontation between the ruling Trinamool and the BJP-led centre over a process that is being carried out months before the Assembly election.
The former has repeatedly claimed the re-verification drive is being used to selectively delete, reclassify, and flag voters through what it called ‘opaque (and) software-driven mechanisms’.
Addressing the media after submitting a detailed representation, Banerjee said the focus on EVMs, electronic voting machines, had distracted from what he termed the real threat to free and fair elections. “Vote chori is not happening in EVM. It’s happening in electoral rolls,” he said.
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