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Indian Express
a day ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
In West Bengal, voter lists appearing online sparks speculation of electoral roll revision in state
West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer has made some voter lists from the 2002 electoral roll revision available online, sparking speculation that the exercise will begin in the state in August. This comes two weeks after the Election Commission of India wrote to state Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) asking them to prepare for a Special Intensive Revision similar to one currently ongoing in Bihar. According to sources in the election commission, the list that has been published on the website of the of the State's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) contains the names of 11 districts — Coochbehar, Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Uttar Dinajpur, Dakshin Dinajpur and Malda in North Bengal and Nadia, Howrah, Hooghly, Medinipur and Bankura in the south. So far, there's been no word from the Election Commission on the speculations in West Bengal, with a senior official saying only that they were 'ready for anything'. 'Within two-three days we will publish all 23 districts' lists of electors according to 2002 SIR,' the official at the West Bengal CEO said. Significantly, West Bengal is due to hold assembly polls next year. In its order to Chief Electoral Officers, the ECI asked them to rationalise polling stations (including identification of new buildings to ensure no polling station has more than 1,200 electors); fill up all vacant positions of key officials, from Block Level Officers (BLOs) and Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) to Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs), and supervisors who will undertake the enumeration on the ground; and conducting their training. Also mentioned in the order was the direction to publish the 2002 electoral rolls online. As part of the exercise, the West Bengal Chief Election Officer began training its Booth Level Officers for the enumeration exercise Saturday. But Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has opposed the exercise, saying Monday that her party 'won't allow SIR in West Bengal'. She also accused the Election Commission of acting on directions from the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance at the Centre. 'They (EC) are finalising the voters' list, while sitting in Gujarat… The BJP's agency (EC) is doing this… They have already set up detention camps in Haryana and Assam… We want to say: 'Jo humse takrayega, choor choor ho jaayega' (Those who mess with us will be shattered),' she said. However, Leader of Opposition and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari has supported the move. 'No Rohingya or Bangladeshi Muslim illegal immigrant, however, will be allowed to have their names in the electoral rolls in the state,' Adhikari said. The electoral roll revision exercise in Bihar has been at the centre of a row, with Opposition parties claiming that the requirement that voters enrolled after 2003 produce multiple documents to stay on the rolls could potentially disenfranchise millions of voters and has spurred legal challenges in the SC. Unlike the Bihar exercise, the qualifying date for pan-Indian exercise has been kept as January 1, 2026.
New Indian Express
21-07-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
No Bangladeshi Muslim or Rohingya will be allowed in voter list, says West Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikari
KOLKATA: Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Monday hit back at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her allegations of harassment of Bengali-speaking people in BJP-ruled states, asserting that no Bangladeshi Muslim or Rohingya will be allowed to find a place in the voter list. Earlier, in the day while addressing the Trinamool Congress' 'Martyrs' Day' rally at Esplanade in Kolkata, Banerjee made it clear that the alleged harassment and torture of Bengali speaking people from Bengal in different BJP-ruled states would not be tolerated anymore. She directed her party workers to launch a 'language movement' on July 27 which will continue till the Assembly elections are over next year. In his address during the BJP's youth front's 'Uttarkanya Abhiyan' in Siliguri today, Adhikari said, 'In Modiji's eyes, Hindus who came from Bangladesh due to religious persecution are refugees. They are not infiltrators. Indian Muslims are here. You have no worries. We are with you. But we will not allow even one Bangladeshi Muslim and Rohingya to be in the voter list.'
Time of India
21-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Suvendu demands SIR in Bengal to remove illegal voters from electoral rolls
Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly , Suvendu Adhikari , on Monday demanded that special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls be conducted in the state as is being done in Bihar for removing illegal voters from the list. He maintained that those Hindus who have come to India from Bangladesh due to religious persecution need not be afraid. Explore courses from Top Institutes in Select a Course Category Design Thinking PGDM Data Analytics MBA Data Science others Operations Management Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Others CXO Leadership MCA Product Management Data Science Finance Digital Marketing Cybersecurity Management Degree Technology Project Management Public Policy healthcare Skills you'll gain: Duration: 25 Weeks IIM Kozhikode CERT-IIMK PCP DTIM Async India Starts on undefined Get Details Skills you'll gain: Duration: 22 Weeks IIM Indore CERT-IIMI DTAI Async India Starts on undefined Get Details "They are refugees in the eyes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ," Adhikari said, addressing a rally here after leading a march to Uttarkanya, the north Bengal branch of the state secretariat here, to protest atrocities on women in the state. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Play War Thunder now for free War Thunder Play Now Undo "Indian Muslims need not worry," Adhikari said to reassure the minority community, who the ruling TMC is claiming are being targeted by the saffron brigade, if an SIR is held in the state. Maintaining that the BJP stands firm with them, he said, "No Rohingya or Bangladeshi Muslim illegal immigrant, however, will be allowed to have their names in the electoral rolls in the state." Live Events The SIR of electoral rolls has triggered a major political controversy in Bihar, where elections are due later this year, with the opposition INDIA bloc alleging that it was designed to "benefit the ruling NDA", a charge denied by the EC that is carrying out the massive exercise. Adhikari alleged that there are 2.15 crore jobless people in West Bengal, while alleging the flight of industries from the state. "Why are there 60 lakh migrant labourers from the state working outside if the chief minister has provided work to all?" he asked. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addressed the annual Trinamool Congress' Martyrs' Day rally in Kolkata on Monday. Stating that the TMC supremo has asserted in the rally that her party will win more seats in the 2026 West Bengal assembly polls than the numbers it secured in 2021, Adhikari said, "I also challenge that she will be a former chief minister of the state after the next elections." Pointing to the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital and the alleged sexual assault of a student at a law college in Kolkata, he claimed that womenfolk in the state "are not safe under the present dispensation". Adhikari and other leaders participated in the programme called by the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) to protest the atrocities on women and demand security for them. Alleging that north Bengal lacks modern healthcare facilities, he claimed that the state government was not providing land for an AIIMS that the central government wants to set up for the benefit of the people here. He alleged that tea garden workers in north Bengal were not getting their dues while the Mamata Banerjee government was working to sell off the land of the gardens.
Time of India
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Dangerous than Emergency: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on detention of Bengali workers
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel Calling the detention of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in BJP-ruled states "illegal" and "more dangerous than Emergency", West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee raised a challenge that she be kept in a detention about a notification in BJP-ruled states, where provisions of illegal detention have been issued, she said: "I dare you to send me to a detention camp, I will speak more in Bengali." "Altogether 1,000 migrant workers have been arrested and detained in BJP-ruled states and many have been pushed back to Bangladesh. People from Birbhum, Cooch Behar, Nadia and other districts are being detained in Odisha and BJP-ruled states," she said."On February 2025, a notification was issued in BJP-ruled states where people can be kept in detention for a month... It is illegal detention and more dangerous than Emergency."Banerjee said Bengali-speaking migrant workers were targeted in the name of NRC and are harassed and tortured. "We, from the West Bengal government , and Trinamool Congress are noticing this every day. We are receiving complaints. I am ashamed and pained by the actions of the India government and the BJP," Banerjee of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari said, "The Trinamool Congress is gearing up to craft a political narrative of Bengali identity. But, in whose interest? In the interest of Bengali-speaking Rohingyas? Or in the interest of illegal Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators? When the process of identifying and deporting illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators has begun across India, the Trinamool leader is attempting to become their shield!"
Metro
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Nadiya Hussain claims BBC 'will keep you till you're of no use to them'
Nadiya Hussain has opened up about the candid reason why she believes her BBC show wasn't recommissioned. The national broadcaster confirmed last month that they would not be working on another cookery show with the Great British Bake Off star, 40, after a decade on the screen. The TV personality took to social media to explain that she had always been made to 'feel grateful' for the opportunities she received, which added an 'invisible pressure' to not voice her frustrations or her desire for more. In a new interview, she has delved into her thoughts on why her working relationship with the BBC ended and the difficulties she has faced navigating the TV industry as a Bangladeshi Muslim woman. When asked by Paul Brunson if 'speaking her truth' is one of the reasons her show didn't get commissioned, she explained that she had accepted she was 'very BBC' after exploring work at other broadcasters. She told the We Need to Talk podcast: 'I suppose it means that they've got me exactly where they want me and utterly unbiased. And just they've got me where they want me. Neutral. And I am not neutral. 'I have opinions and I have things to say. They'll keep you till you're of no use to them. And I think that's what happened. I think essentially I got lots of reasons why they couldn't commission the show.' Her lack of recommision was given 'rough reasons' but nothing 'definitive', she shared. Before adding: 'My husband and I always spoke about it and he just said, 'there's going to be a point where they're not going to need you anymore. And the second you don't fit the box… there'll be no space for you. And I suppose I don't fit that space anymore.' Reflecting on how the new was announced she claims the broadcaster told her to say she chose to no longer do the show to 'focus on different projects' which she added was 'not the truth' leading her to refusing to post it. As for what's next, she is ready to be her 'unfiltered' self, adding: 'I just decided, clean slate. I no longer have an agent. Everyone's gone, because I want it to start from scratch. 'As if I had won Bake Off ten years ago, when I had nobody but my husband and myself and my instinct and my gut and what it tells me, it's been the most freeing thing to know that every decision I make is my own, and nobody gets to filter me.' Elsewhere in the podcast she opened up about an incident which took place during an appearance on a 'very big breakfast show' on TV, although she does not specify which one. She said the hosts were 'mocking a recipe out of her book' and renamed her Chaat in a bag to 'shat in a bag' which prompted her to file an official complaint. 'I found that really distasteful and really hateful. And I said, they need to apologize for that because that was really deeply disrespectful and nothing, nothing, nothing. They refused to apologize,' she said. During her career she's been made to feel like a 'tick box exercise', Nadiya shared. '[I had to be] a muslim that was relatable, like the People's Muslim, the people's person of color, the digestible version of myself,' the famed baker said. Reflecting on a time when her proposal to a publisher on a book about parenthood as someone from a 'ethnic minority background straddling two worlds' was shot down, she said she was made to feel like her 'voice didn't matter'. Since winning series six of The Great British Bake Off in 2015, the mother-of-three has hosted a while variety of shows including The Chronicles of Nadiya, Nadiya's Family Favourites, Nadiya's Everyday Baking and Nadiya's Cook Once, Eat Twice. More Trending 'I look back [at my career] and I think, oh my goodness, it was all a tick box exercise till they just didn't need me anymore. Till they just said, actually, unless you're the version that we want, you don't get to be the version that's authentic. 'And when you decide that you want to be authentic, there's no room for you. And that's when I was able to step into my true self.' A statement from the BBC in June simply read: 'After several wonderful series, we have made the difficult decision not to commission another cookery show with Nadiya Hussain at the moment.' View More » Metro has reached out to the BBC for comment. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: BBC viewers have days to watch 'genius' series ahead of fourth season MORE: BBC staff with authority to cut Bob Vylan livestream were present at Glastonbury MORE: Gregg Wallace's final MasterChef series should air – his behaviour isn't contestants' fault
