Assam Opposition Alleges Mass Additions to Voter Rolls as CM Points to ECI Process

Overview

• Congress leader Debabrata Saikia alleges a plan to add 5,000–10,000 non-Assamese names per constituency at the last moment to sway the Assembly polls.
• Saikia cites Tayabulla Road in Guwahati as an example, claiming unknown names, including people from Bihar, were added to specific households.
• Ripun Bora calls it organised vote theft, and Akhil Gogoi alleges BJP legislators were told to secure about 10,000 additional votes each.
• Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma says the Election Commission alone prepares the rolls, urging use of the claims-and-objections process before January 22 and noting the BJP will also file corrections using Forms 6, 7 and 8.
• No independent verification of the alleged mass additions is presented in the reports, and a specific response from the Election Commission to these charges is not reported.