Voter cards found scattered behind Rajganj BDO office in Jalpaiguri amid SIR

Today, behind the Rajganj Block Development Office in North Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, a bizarre electoral riddle unfolded amid SIR process when locals recovered piles of voter cards scattered in the jungle. These weren't fresh slips of civic power but relics from five or six years past, replaced long ago with updated versions for their rightful owners abandoned amid Election Commission team were present in North Bengal. The discovery, first spotted by locals creates tensions at the BDO office premises. Yesterday, a similar incident occured in Purba Bardhaman district where massive Aadhaar card has been recovered from a pond in Purbasthali during a routine cleanup.

In Rajganj, the plot thickened with an FIR at the local thana, probing not about these voter cards' origins but the shadow of controversy cloaking the Rajganj BDO Prasanta Mondal, who's dodging a separate murder case of Newtown gold trader. The forest where the voter cards has been recovered lies just behind the BDO office became an unlikely scene when curious locals alerted authorities about the cards. The safai-karmis of the BDO office confirmed that they aren't aware about this incident. Assistant BDO Sourav Kanti Mondal claims that a snake had invaded the storeroom days earlier, prompting a hasty evacuation of files during which these obsolete voter IDs supposedly tumbled out the back in the jungle.

Yet skepticism simmered—why such a volume, and why here, under the watchful eyes of the EC's scrutiny! The timing, smack in the midst of ongoing Bengal's SIR process. As time advanced, police cordoned the site, sifting through the litter for clues lent an air of urgency to what might be mere sloppiness or something sinistrous. For now, police probe underway, but in Bengal's labyrinth of bureaucracy and ballots, such finds often dissolve into footnotes unless voices amplify. Yesterday's Purbasthali and today's Rajganj both these incidents serves as a stark nudge: in the quiet corners where democracy's paperwork piles up, even a snake's whim can unearth truths long buried, reminding us that vigilance isn't just for voting booths—it's for the backwoods too.