Overview
- Five parties — Congress, Raijor Dal, CPI(M), CPI(ML) and Assam Jatiya Parishad — submitted a complaint at Dispur Police Station on Friday alleging a BJP plan to remove genuine voters before the Assembly polls.
- The complaint cites a January 4 video meeting where Assam BJP chief Dilip Saikia allegedly told MLAs to identify 5,000–10,000 non-BJP voters per constituency in around 60 seats, with minister Ashok Singhal tasked to oversee the deletions, and seeks seizure of the recording and related digital records.
- Alongside the police complaint, opposition leaders moved the Election Commission and the state CEO seeking a high-level independent inquiry, an audit of Form 7 objections across Assam, stricter adherence to EC guidelines, and a halt to the Special Revision until the issues are addressed.
- Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and BJP leaders denied the charges as baseless, arguing the revision lawfully removes ineligible names and adds eligible voters; police said the complaint is being examined, and no EC-ordered probe was announced.
- The Special Revision remains underway after a December 27 draft roll listed about 25.20 million electors and roughly 1.06 million names flagged in categories like deceased, shifted or duplicate, with claims and objections open in January and the final roll expected on February 10.