Overview
- In a submission to the Election Commission, the BJP said West Bengal’s electorate grew from 3.93 crore to 7.24 crore since 2002, with Hindu electors up 72.3% and Muslim electors up 127.7%.
- The party asserted that Muslim voters more than doubled in 37 Lok Sabha seats and that Muslim‑dominated assembly constituencies rose from 45 to 60 over the same period.
- BJP leaders urged the poll panel to account for demographic shifts in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls and to remove alleged ineligible entries.
- The Trinamool Congress dismissed the BJP’s statistics as unfounded, pointing to the absence of any census after 2011 and arguing that the state’s lower fertility rate undermines the claims.
- BJP leader Amit Malviya separately claimed, citing Election Commission data, that nine of the top 10 districts with the largest voter increases border Bangladesh and alleged illegal migration in Kolkata and the adjoining 24 Parganas.