Kolkata: Election Commission will have to bring out an error-free voter list whether it took 80 days or 180, state BJP said on Tuesday, and claimed that judicial officers would have to come from neighbouring states for SIR work with the state administration getting “politicised”.Hours after the Supreme Court order was out, Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said: “Whether it takes 80 days or 180 days for the EC, it has to ensure an error-free voter list. SIR process was peaceful in non-BJP states like Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Bengal is the only exception where problems were created to derail the process.”
Giving out a “no SIR, no vote” slogan, Bhattacharya said that EC would have to go through every objection filed by the BLAs to ensure that none of the political parties were aggrieved. He added, “There are efforts to influence judges… The administration was already politicised and it can’t be trusted any more.”Union junior minister Sukanta Majumdar questioned the presence of Manoj Pant at a Supreme Court-mandated meeting with the Calcutta High Court’s chief justice on SIR. “The order clearly mentions who was authorised to attend the meeting to take forward the SIR process. Despite that, I received information that Manoj Pant was present. In what capacity did he attend? He is no longer the chief secretary,” Majumdar said.
