Of them, 56,000 (71%) are from two constituencies — Calcutta Port and Ballygunge — that have a large number of Muslim voters. ADVERTISEMENTCase 3: The Calcutta Port Assembly constituency has 1,79,239 voters in the final SIR rolls. “It is true that wards with a Muslim majority population have an extremely large number of voters under adjudication. The numbers do raise suspicion,” said Debashis Kumar, Trinamool’s south Calcutta district president and MLA from Rashbehari. Calcutta Port is one of the four Assembly constituencies whose SIR processes fell under the district election officer, South Calcutta.

Source: The Telegraph March 05, 2026 02:24 UTC