Hooghly Voter Roll War: TMC MLA Asit Majumdar Halts Hearings Over BLA Exclusion Ahead of 2026 Polls

West Bengal is witnessing a high-voltage showdown over something as seemingly dry as a voter list. As of Tuesday, December 30, 2025, Trinamool Congress MLA Asit Majumdar has followed through on his ultimatum, shutting down the Special Intensive Roll (SIR) hearing at the Polba Dadpur block office in Hooghly.

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The thing is, this isn’t just about administrative rules. Or nothing. Let’s be real, the ruling party feels like the Election Commission (EC) is trying to push through a “sanitized” list by locking their eyes and ears—the Booth Level Agents (BLAs)—out of the room. Those too.

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The Hooghly Stand-off

Majumdar didn’t just walk in; he stopped the entire machinery.

• The Quote: “Any hearing in the absence of booth level activists is a farce,” he declared outside the hearing center.

• The Tactics: This follows a two-hour stall on Monday at the Mogra-Chinsurah BDO office.

• The “Writing” Demand: Majumdar is demanding the SDO give it in writing if BLAs are officially barred. Until then, he’s treating every closed-door hearing as illegal.

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Why the BLAs Matter

And here’s the kicker: the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) for the 2026 Assembly elections is uniquely aggressive.

1. Mass Deletions: In other states like Uttar Pradesh, nearly 2.89 crore names were recently struck off. In Bengal, the fear is that “unmapped” voters (those missing since 2002) will be wiped out without party oversight.

2. Abhishek’s Line: Party General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee has already greenlit a legal battle if BLAs are excluded.

3. The Counter-View: Interestingly, fellow TMC MLA Tapan Dasgupta claimed his agents were allowed inside at a nearby complex, highlighting a total lack of uniform enforcement on the ground.

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The 2026 Context

It’s an ongoing situation where both the TMC and BJP are accusing each other of “voter list manipulation.” With Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Kolkata today for high-level BJP meetings, the pressure on the state election machinery is peak. The TMC has already set up “assistance camps” outside all 3,234 centers to ensure their supporters don’t get “accidentally” deleted.

The hearings are supposed to run through January 2026, but with MLAs literally blocking the doors, the “Special Revision” is looking a lot more like a political street fight.

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