Heaps of voter cards stuffed in several bags found along NH 12 in Nadia amid SIR

Nadia locals discovers several bags stuffed with plenty of voter ID cards lying in garbage beside National Highway 12 amid SIR. The location falls under Shantipur police station in Udaypur area and the cards reportedly belong to voters from North 24 Parganas district. People first noticed the suspicious bags among heaps of waste, they further opened them, and were stunned to see piles of EPIC (voter) cards – local estimates say around 400 to 500 cards were inside. Within minutes the news spread like wildfire, crowds gathered, and police rushed to the spot to seize the bags.

This is not the first such incident in Bengal in the past few days. Amid the ongoing Special Investigation Report (SIR) drive on voter list irregularities, similar recoveries of voter cards and even Aadhaar cards have been reported from different parts of the state. Shantipur Police have started contacting the owners whose names appear on the recovered cards and are trying to figure out how and why these official documents ended up dumped along the national highway. Questions are being raised whether someone deliberately tried to destroy evidence or if it was pure negligence.

The timing has made the matter even more sensitive because CM Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to visit tommorow. Opposition parties have already started calling it a “deep conspiracy” by ruling party to manipulate voter lists ahead of future elections, while TMC says it could be an attempt by BJP to defame the government right before the CM’s programme. Bengal Police have launched a detailed probe to get to the bottom of this bizarre voter cards recovery.