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Bengal SIR: 110 have died because of anxiety, says Mamata Banerjee
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that more than 110 persons had died in West Bengal because of anxiety about the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls in the state, The Hindu reported.
Banerjee said three to four persons were dying of suicide every day, PTI reported. The Trinamool Congress chief said that the Election Commission and the Union government should take responsibility for the deaths.
“Why will the case not be filed against EC?” Banerjee asked at an event to mark the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. “The Election Commission of India will have to take responsibility for these deaths, the Government of India will also have to take responsibility.”
The chief minister has been accusing the Election Commission of harassing voters and endangering democratic rights through the voter roll revision process.
In recent months, several booth-level officer in West Bengal have died allegedly by suicide or illnesses due to the alleged work pressure during the process. In one case in October, a 95-year-old man died allegedly by suicide as, according to his family, he was anxious about being excluded from the voter list.
In November, Banerjee in a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said that the voter roll revision process had reached an “alarming” and “dangerous” stage, emphasising that the manner in which it was being carried out was unplanned and chaotic, and putting citizens and officials at risk.
The draft electoral rolls for West Bengal under the voter roll revision exercise were published on December 16. The names of more than 58 lakh voters were removed from voter lists in the state as they had either died, migrated outside the state or did not submit their enumeration forms.
The deletion from the draft roll is provisional and citizens can object to their names being removed from the list. Citizens whose names have been dropped from the list can file their claims and objections.
At an event on Thursday, Banerjee was quoted by PTI as saying that people, including senior citizens, were having to line up at the special intensive revision camps for hearings and wait for five to six hours in the open every day.
“Citing logical discrepancies, they [poll panel] are picking up issues like surnames of Bengalis which had been known and accepted for years,” the chief minister said.
“I am known as both Mamata Banerjee and Mamata Bandyopadhyay,” she said. “In the same way, Chatterjee and Chattopadhyay are the same surname. Thakur also came to be known as Tagore during British rule.”
Logical discrepancies include a mismatch in parents' names, low age gap with parents and cases where parents have more than six children.
On Monday, the Supreme Court told the Election Commission to publish the names of 1.2 crore persons against whom the poll panel had raised “logical discrepancy” objections.
The court said that persons who had received notices from the Election Commission could submit their documents or objections through booth-level agents. If the documents submitted as proof are found to be unsatisfactory, the persons should be given an opportunity to be heard, the bench said.
It also verbally observed that the Class 10 admit cards issued by the state education board must be accepted as a proof in the enumeration process.
West Bengal is expected to head for Assembly elections in the three to four months.
Besides West Bengal, the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls is underway in 11 states and Union Territories.
Source: Scroll
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