West Bengal elections 2026: Deleted voters grill Dilip even as BJP sticks to ‘infiltrator’ pitch

KOLKATA/KHARAGPUR: BJP's Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday said names of some genuine voters had indeed been deleted during the Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls after he ran into a group of women who asked him why their names were knocked off the list while he was on the campaign trail. Ghosh's comments come at a time when BJP has doubled down on the narrative that those deleted from the rolls following SIR were "infiltrators".

"Some genuine voters were indeed deleted and those people can approach the tribunal," said Ghosh, BJP's Kharagpur Sadar candidate. He went on to add: "BLOs trained by Trinamool were responsible for the errors."

Ghosh is not the only BJP neta to have faced such questions. Bengal BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya, when asked about deleted voters on Wednesday, said, "There are some genuine voters whose names were deleted. We feel sorry for them."

Bhattacharya too blamed TMC and said the deletions "started with Trinamool's conspiracy to derail the SIR process."

He further said people from Bengal were coming back to the state in large numbers to cast their vote. "They have heard the narrative that Bengali-speakers in other states have been targeted. They want to register their protest by casting their vote," he added. Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan, on the other hand, said that the choice before the state was between Bengalis and infiltrators.