“It’s a sinister move to bring NRC through the backdoor,” alleged the TMC Rajya Sabha parliamentary party leader.He added that INDIA bloc parties will take up the issue both inside and outside Parliament.”We are all on the same page on this. We will not wait for Parliament to start. This cannot wait,” O’Brien said.On Friday, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) wrote to the poll panel on the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar and urged it to abandon the exercise.In a letter to Chief Election Commission Gyanesh Kumar, CPI(M) Politburo member Nilotpal Basu stated that while review of electoral rolls is a normal and routine process, the proposals appear to be putting a major part of the responsibility for inclusion or deletion from the electoral rolls is being imposed on the voters themselves.After Bihar, the Election Commission will carry out a similar review of electoral rolls by the end of this year in five states going to polls in 2026.The terms of the legislative assemblies of Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are ending in May-June next year.
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