Mumbai: Maharashtra NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar on Tuesday alleged that the BJP was running a parallel voter verification exercise through its Booth Level Agents (BLAs) during the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls and urged the Election Commission to investigate the matter.
State BJP chief spokesperson Navnath Ban, however, hit back, saying Pawar should either study the process in detail or meet Election Commission officials to understand it. The EC allows every party to appoint BLAs to assist Booth Level Officers (BLOs- appointed to carry out SIR), and the BJP is doing so strictly in line with the rules, Ban said.
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The enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) began in Maharashtra on June 30.
In a post on X, Pawar described the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise as a "horrific episode" and alleged that names of voters holding opposing political views had been deleted or shifted to different locations during the revision process in West Bengal.
