Kolkata: Controversy erupted over Trinamool Cooch Behar district chairman’s alleged statement, who allegedly said that the BLOs will be tied up with the trees and beaten up if they come without "the complete voter list of 2002 SIR”. BJP Bengal unit wrote a letter to West Bengal-Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Agarwal today complaining against the Trinamool Coochbehar district chairman for intimidation of the BLOs in Coochbehar.
“In a blatant act of intimidation, TMC Cooch Behar district chairman Girindranath Barman, has publicly threatened the BLO and also asked his party workers (goons) to tie up the BLO if he comes without ‘the complete voter list of 2000. "We will tie him up." This kind of a threat is not an isolated incident. All such threats are premediated with the sole objective to threaten the BLOs either not to carry out the task as required per the SIR or completely surrender to the dictates of these unscrupulous TMC functionaries,” BJP leader Sisir Bajoria wrote in his letter to the WB-CEO. He has also attached link to the video with his letter.
Barman was seen saying in a purported video that the EC appointed persons should come with 2000 voter rolls related data. “How they will have to bring the data is the Election Commission’s headache. Otherwise, the EC official will be tied in the trees,” Barman allegedly threatened. The veracity of the purported video has not been verified by ET.
“TMC does not want cleansing of electoral rolls, which are full of ghosts, infiltrators, and fake people that have bloated West Bengal's voter lists for decades. BJP requests you to lodge an FIR against this Girindranath Barman for threatening a government employee while carrying out his duty. If strict action is not immediately initiated such incidents of threats will keep increasing and the possibility of physical attack cannot be ruled out,” the letter read.
Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari has also drawn the attention of WB-CEO Manoj Agarwal in his X Handle post about the intimidation of the BLOs. “I am compelled to bring to your urgent attention Mr. @CEOWestBengal , a brazen act of intimidation that reeks of the despotic playbook TMC has perfected over the years. The air is thick with threats. Girindranath Barman, the TMC's Cooch Behar district Chairman; a man who masquerades as a leader but behaves like a local Don, has publicly declared war on the very BLOs tasked with upholding the sanctity of our electoral rolls,”Adhikari said in his post.
“In a chilling press statement, Barman announced that every Booth Level Officer (BLO), as an agent of the Election Commission, must "come with the complete voter list of 2000." Fail to do so? "We will tie him up." Yes, you read that right, tie them up, as if we're in some medieval dungeon, not a modern democracy. And for what? To bully BLOs into fabricating a "solution", following their desperate Leader's diktat, ensuring no "genuine" TMC sympathizer's name vanishes from the Voter's List during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR),” Adhikari said.
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee will hold a virtual meeting on SIR.
“The Centre’s drumbeat about a purported “infiltration” in Bengal is exposed for what it is: crude political theatre. If there are truly one crore Bangladeshis and Rohingyas hiding in Bengal, as @BJP4India leaders sensationally claim, then why is SIR being imposed only on Bengal? Bengal shares international borders with Bangladesh exactly as Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram do. Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram border Myanmar. Yet every one of those States has been conveniently exempted from SIR. We will not allow our people to be singled out for a humiliating, stigmatising test of belonging. Bengal will defend every legitimate voter and every citizen whose roots are in this soil. The architects of this selective exercise must explain, publicly and without delay, the legal and factual basis for targeting only Bengal,” AITC X Handle posted.
“In a blatant act of intimidation, TMC Cooch Behar district chairman Girindranath Barman, has publicly threatened the BLO and also asked his party workers (goons) to tie up the BLO if he comes without ‘the complete voter list of 2000. "We will tie him up." This kind of a threat is not an isolated incident. All such threats are premediated with the sole objective to threaten the BLOs either not to carry out the task as required per the SIR or completely surrender to the dictates of these unscrupulous TMC functionaries,” BJP leader Sisir Bajoria wrote in his letter to the WB-CEO. He has also attached link to the video with his letter.
Barman was seen saying in a purported video that the EC appointed persons should come with 2000 voter rolls related data. “How they will have to bring the data is the Election Commission’s headache. Otherwise, the EC official will be tied in the trees,” Barman allegedly threatened. The veracity of the purported video has not been verified by ET.
“TMC does not want cleansing of electoral rolls, which are full of ghosts, infiltrators, and fake people that have bloated West Bengal's voter lists for decades. BJP requests you to lodge an FIR against this Girindranath Barman for threatening a government employee while carrying out his duty. If strict action is not immediately initiated such incidents of threats will keep increasing and the possibility of physical attack cannot be ruled out,” the letter read.
Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari has also drawn the attention of WB-CEO Manoj Agarwal in his X Handle post about the intimidation of the BLOs. “I am compelled to bring to your urgent attention Mr. @CEOWestBengal , a brazen act of intimidation that reeks of the despotic playbook TMC has perfected over the years. The air is thick with threats. Girindranath Barman, the TMC's Cooch Behar district Chairman; a man who masquerades as a leader but behaves like a local Don, has publicly declared war on the very BLOs tasked with upholding the sanctity of our electoral rolls,”Adhikari said in his post.
“In a chilling press statement, Barman announced that every Booth Level Officer (BLO), as an agent of the Election Commission, must "come with the complete voter list of 2000." Fail to do so? "We will tie him up." Yes, you read that right, tie them up, as if we're in some medieval dungeon, not a modern democracy. And for what? To bully BLOs into fabricating a "solution", following their desperate Leader's diktat, ensuring no "genuine" TMC sympathizer's name vanishes from the Voter's List during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR),” Adhikari said.
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee will hold a virtual meeting on SIR.
“The Centre’s drumbeat about a purported “infiltration” in Bengal is exposed for what it is: crude political theatre. If there are truly one crore Bangladeshis and Rohingyas hiding in Bengal, as @BJP4India leaders sensationally claim, then why is SIR being imposed only on Bengal? Bengal shares international borders with Bangladesh exactly as Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram do. Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram border Myanmar. Yet every one of those States has been conveniently exempted from SIR. We will not allow our people to be singled out for a humiliating, stigmatising test of belonging. Bengal will defend every legitimate voter and every citizen whose roots are in this soil. The architects of this selective exercise must explain, publicly and without delay, the legal and factual basis for targeting only Bengal,” AITC X Handle posted.
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