Bengal SIR: TMC claims voter deletions affected outcome in many seats, SC says fresh pleas needed
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The Trinamool Congress claimed on Monday before the Supreme Court that in 31 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal, the winning margin of the Bharatiya Janata Party was less than the number of persons deleted during the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, Live Law reported.
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In many cases, the number of persons removed and the margin of the TMC’s defeat were almost the same, lawyer and party MP Kalyan Bandopadhyay told a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi.
The bench told the party that former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and others were free to file fresh applications in connection with these allegations, PTI reported.
Bandopadhyay claimed that in one constituency, a candidate lost by 862 votes, while 5,432 persons were removed from the rolls.
On the whole, the vote gap between the BJP and TMC was nearly 32 lakh, while close to 35 lakh appeals against adjudications are pending before appellate tribunals as part of the revision process, Live Law quoted him as saying.
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The Election Commission, however, contended that the appropriate course of action for the Trinamool Congress in such cases would be to file election petitions. To this, the TMC MP urged the court to...