Overview

• BJP MP Anurag Thakur alleged a 15% surge in voter numbers across 301 of 1,724 booths in Diamond Harbour, claiming 259,779 suspicious votes
• TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh cited official data showing only a 4.70% increase in Diamond Harbour and a 4.09% rise in Falta over the past four years
• Abhishek Banerjee sent an emissary to New Delhi with a flash drive containing detailed ERONet electoral-roll files to back the party’s rebuttal
• The party explained that the “n” prefix in house numbers is a notional designation used in the ECI’s ERONet system for rural areas, not an indicator of fake registrations
• No independent verification or probe by the Election Commission has been reported to resolve the conflicting claims