KMC Issuing Birth Certificates to Suspicious People Over SIR Fears: Suvendu Adhikari
updated on: 2025/11/06 07:10 pm IST
BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari accused Kolkata’s civic body of misusing birth certificates to manipulate electoral rolls, a claim denied by TMC officials.
KOLKATA: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday accused the Kolkata Municipal corporation (KMC) of issuing birth certificates on a large scale to help “suspicious individuals” who were at risk of being removed from the electoral list during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal, a claim that was rejected by the ruling trinamool Congress (TMC).
“This is nothing but a blatant attempt to manipulate Electoral Rolls and undermine the Democratic process. Birth Certificates are legal documents meant for citizens of our country; generally newborns or in some extremely rare cases; people seeking genuine late registrations. Birth Certificates are not tools for political engineering, with the malafide intention of changing the demography for vested political inter