The political climate in West Bengal has reached a fever pitch following explosive allegations by TMC MP Mahua Moitra regarding the state’s voter list. Moitra has accused BJP cadres of being “caught red-handed” with approximately 30,000 to 40,000 Form-6 applications (used for enrolling new voters). She questioned how a party’s booth-level agents could possess such a massive number of forms when the legal limit for collection is significantly lower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This controversy sparked a massive protest outside the Chief Electoral Officer\u2019s (CEO) office in Kolkata. Supporters of the ruling Trinamool Congress staged an indefinite sit-in, leading to violent clashes with the police and BJP workers. Security forces had to resort to a mild lathi-charge to disperse the crowd and maintain law and order. While Moitra maintains that this is a systematic attempt at electoral fraud by the saffron party, the BJP has dismissed these claims as a desperate political stunt. With the streets of Kolkata witnessing intense slogan-shouting and heavy police deployment, the battle for the electoral roll has now become the focal point of the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The political climate in West Bengal has reached a fever pitch following explosive allegations by TMC MP Mahua Moitra regarding the state’s voter list. Moitra has accused BJP cadres of being “caught red-handed” with approximately 30,000 to 40,000 Form-6 applications (used for enrolling new voters). She questioned how a party’s booth-level agents could possess such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":212778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-212777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news"},"yoast_head":"\n