The minister had earlier alleged that Trinamool was banking on the “votes of infiltrators to remain in office”.Pradhan, addressing the media at Kalighat temple, where he joined BJP‘s Rashbehari candidate Swapan Dasgupta to offer prayers, said: “The Special Intensive Revision is a constitutional process and we should accept that. It has happened in a number of states across the country.”Pradhan’s words came even as state leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari stressed the orders of the Supreme Court and said Indians, whose names got deleted from the rolls, should now apply at the tribunal.“There is a specific directive from the Supreme Court. If they are unable to cast their votes this time, they will get to vote in the next election. But the filtration process should be complete. There shouldn’t be the name of any Bangladeshi Muslim,” he said.Training guns on CM Mamata Banerjee, Adhikari said the intervention by the judiciary happened after she moved the apex court. “It is not the ECI to judge. The judiciary was involved after Mamata Banerjee’s intervention. Trinamool wanted dead voters to cast their votes. They even tried to confuse people by equating SIR with NRC,” the LoP said.Asked about the highest deletion in Murshidabad, Adhikari said it is an area close to the India-Bangladesh border. “There is no fence that separates the border region,” he said, pointing fingers at the “large-scale infiltration in Murshidabad”.
