Trinamool to launch year-long voter verification campaign from mid April

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) will start its year long voter verification drive from the middle of April and more than 80,000 booths across the state will be brought under this campaign. One of the main purposes of the move is to remove the fake voters from the list. BLA II employees will update the current voter lists by carrying out a door-to-door survey. An App will be activated which will help in real time voter verification. Geo-tagging and other facilities will be available so that the people in the ground level who will be carrying out the drive will easily be able to report it to the officials. Panchayat electoral roll supervisors, ward electoral roll supervisors, block electoral roll supervisors, town electoral roll verification supervisors have already been appointed and training has been started.

Trinamool Congress leaders conducted scrutinising the electoral rolls amid allegations of voter list manipulation by the BJP ahead of next year’s assembly polls in West Bengal. Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee in February accused the BJP of tampering with the electoral rolls with the “support of the Election Commission” by adding fake voters from other states, a charge denied by the saffron party. Banerjee alleged that the BJP had used similar tactics in previous elections in Delhi and Maharashtra. Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim had personally carried out the voter list verification drive in the Chetla area of south Kolkata. Many BJP leaders and party workers also conducted a verification drive in various places.