The Trinamool Congress staged a protest in Hasnabad, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, against the alleged targeted removal of names from the final voters’ list. Local leaders and activists of the party burnt tires, raised slogans against the Election Commission of India, and even burned an effigy of the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari. The protest led to the blocking of the local Lebukhali Road, causing traffic disruptions until the police intervened to restore order.
Protesters claimed that valid voters’ names, particularly from minority-dominated booths, were deliberately omitted from the voter list. Trinamool Congress accused the Election Commission of selectively targeting minority voters, with approximately 400 names removed from booth number 111 of Sahapur. The party denounced this alleged conspiracy involving the BJP and the Election Commission, vowing not to accept such actions.
Following the Special Intensive Revision process, the final voter list was released in West Bengal, triggering widespread anger and protests across the state. Notably, 16,125 voters’ names were omitted from the Basirhat subdivision, including the area in Hasnabad where the protest took place, falling under the Basirhat South Assembly constituency.
According to local sources, out of 1,065 individuals in booth number 111 of Sahapur, 400 were marked as ‘deleted’ in the final voters’ list, raising concerns among Trinamool Congress members. Shahjahan Moral, the party’s booth president, highlighted the omission of minority voters’ names, contrasting it with the presence of Hindu voters on the list. In response, the BJP’s Basirhat district youth wing president, Palash Sarkar, emphasized the importance of including only legal voters in the list, dismissing allegations of excluding illegal voters that form the Trinamool’s vote bank.
