KOLKATA (The Thursday Times) — Bharti riyasat Maghribi Bengal mein opposition jamaaton aur shehri huqooq ki tanzeemon ne Haftay ko un voters ke haq ke liye aik mushtarka platform qaim kiya jin ke naam riyasat ki intikhabi fehriston se nikal diye gaye. Yeh qadam aik aisi nazar-e-sani ke baad uthaya gaya jis mein 91 lakh se zyada naam, yaani taqreeban 13 feesad voters, fehriston se kharij ho gaye.
“All Bengal Joint Forum to Safeguard Voting Rights”, yaani “Sara Bangla Votadhikar Rokkha Jukto Moncho”, ne un logon se awaz uthane ki appeal ki jin ke baare mein us ka kehna hai ke un ke naam Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ke dauran ghair qanooni taur par hazf kiye gaye, aur tamam opposition jamaaton ko 21 November ko Kolkata mein aik bare convention mein shirkat ki dawat di.
Mahir-e-maashiyat aur Congress rehnuma Prasenjit Bose ne kaha, “Jin voters ke naam intikhabi fehriston se ghair qanooni taur par hazf kiye gaye hain, un se bhi kaha ja raha hai ke woh apne aaini haq ke tahaffuz ke liye is platform ke zariye awaz uthayein.” Arkan ne bataya ke Congress, Trinamool Congress, Communist Party of India aur Communist Party of India (Marxist) shehri huqooq ki tanzeemon ke saath is mein shareek hongi.
38 lakh appeals zer-e-iltiwa
Bengal mein SIR October 2025 se February 2026 tak jari rahi, us assembly intikhab se kuch hi pehle jis ke nateeje mein Bharatiya Janata Party pehli baar riyasat mein bar-sar-e-iqtidar aayi. Election Commission of India ne September mein Supreme Court mein jama karaye gaye aik halaf name mein kaha tha ke “mantiqi tazadaat” ki bunyad par kharij kiye gaye 27 lakh afraad mein se 22 lakh ne tribunals mein appeal ki hai, jabke shamil kiye gaye naamon ke khilaf mazeed 16.10 lakh appeals dair huin, yun 38 lakh appeals zer-e-iltiwa hain.
Bose ne kaha ke forum hukkam se chhe sawalat poochhega, jin mein yeh bhi shamil hai ke tribunals ko yeh backlog nimtane mein kitna waqt lagega aur kya appeal karne wale 22 lakh voters aane wale baldiyati aur panchayat intikhabat se bahar reh jayenge.
Forum ne yeh ilzam bhi lagaya ke 16 lakh naamon ke khilaf aitrazaat riyasat ke sabiq Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Agrawal ne tayyar kiye thay. Retired sarkari afsar aur Rajya Sabha ke sabiq rukn Jawhar Sircar ne kaha, “Hum janna chahte hain ke yeh log kaun hain, SIR mein voter fehriston mein shamil hone ke bawajood un ke naamon ke khilaf yeh darkhwastein kyun di gayin. Kya un ka taalluq kisi khaas biradari ya kisi khaas ilaqe se hai?”
Yeh platform aise waqt saamne aaya hai jab is nazar-e-sani par siyasi larai phail rahi hai. Lok Sabha mein Qaid-e-Hizb-e-Ikhtilaf Rahul Gandhi ne Haftay ko kaha ke Bharat “ab jamhooriyat nahin raha”, aik mulk geer nazar-e-sani ke baad jis ke baare mein un ka kehna hai ke us mein 14 crore voters nikal diye gaye, jabke Kolkata police ne Chief Election Commissioner ke baare mein aik social media post par Trinamool ke rukn-e-parliament Abhishek Banerjee se poochh gachh ki.
Commission ka jawab
Election Commission ne Haftay ko Supreme Court mein aik zimni halaf nama dakhil kiya jis mein un voters ki wapsi ke liye “mazeed iqdamat” bayan kiye gaye jinhein ghalti se ghair haazir, muntaqil shuda, faut shuda ya dohre indiraaj ke taur par draft fehriston se nikal diya gaya tha. Commission ne kaha, “Commission is zaroorat se poori tarah aagah hai ke vote ke ahl tamam afraad ko voter fehriston mein apna naam mile.”
Jin riyasaton mein nazar-e-sani jari hai, unhein 6 November ko jari hidayat ke tehat aise voters zaati taur par, ahl-e-khana ke zariye ya online enumeration form jama kara sakte hain aur unhein un ke purane voter ID number wapas mil jayenge. Kharij kiye gaye voters ki booth-wise fehristein un ke ikhraj ki “mumkina wajoohat” ke saath dobara aawezan ki jayengi. Commission ne kaha ke jo voters pehle hi naye voter ke taur par darkhwast de chuke hain, unhein dobara darkhwast dene ki zaroorat nahin aur un ke khilaf qanooni karrawai nahin hogi.
Activist Anjali Bhardwaj samet darkhwast guzaron ne adalat ko bataya tha ke pehle se registered voters ko Form 6 bharne par majboor kiya ja raha hai, jo pehli baar vote dene walon ke liye hai, aur is tarah unhein ghalat bayani ke ilzam mein qanooni karrawai ka saamna ho sakta hai. Commission ne adalat ko yeh bhi bataya ke us ne apne IT division ki nigrani aik senior Deputy Election Commissioner ke supurd kar di hai, un ittelaat ke baad ke yeh division nigrani ki is satah ko nazarandaz kar raha tha.
