“If there is any irregularity in voters’ list, then dissolve entire Lok Sabha,” says TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee
The Statesman | 13 August 2025
Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday slammed the Election Commission and said that if the voter list has errors, the entire Lok Sabha and Union Government should be dissolved, as the same list was used to elect the Prime Minister and Union ministers.
Banerjee accused the Election Commission of avoiding questions on alleged voter list discrepancies, citing instances of voters sharing the same EPIC number in both Gujarat and West Bengal. He also added that the Election Commission is scared.
Speaking to the reporters, Abhishek Banerjee said, “The way Delhi Police behaved with opposition MPs, including several women MPs, who were protesting democratically and peacefully in Delhi yesterday, makes it clear that the Election Commission is scared. They have no answers to our questions. If you have an answer, then explain how there are voters in both Gujarat and Bengal with the same EPIC number? How are there voters with the same name at different polling stations?…”
“The Election Commission is saying there is an error in the voter list… If we assume they are correct, then based on the same voter list and electoral roll, the country’s Prime Minister was elected a year ago, 240 BJP MPs were elected, the country’s Home Minister, Health Minister, and Defence Minister were elected… If there is any irregularity in the voters’ list, then dissolve the entire Lok Sabha… If you want to conduct an SIR, go ahead, but the first step should be to dissolve the Lok Sabha. The Union Government should dissolve. You were elected based on this very voter list, but you are saying the voter list in Bengal is wrong, but in Gujarat, it’s fine… If there is to be a SIR, it should happen across the entire country,” he added.
Earlier, on the seventeenth day of the Monsoon Session, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge joined fellow INDIA bloc members in staging a protest in Parliament over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) issue.
Several Opposition MPs arrived wearing white T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan ‘124 Not Out’.