Kolkata, May 17 -- A few hundred Aadhaar cards, voters' photo identity cards and Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee (MNREG) Scheme job cards were recovered from several Trinamool Congress (TMC) offices in West Bengal on Sunday by local residents and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers who alleged that these were forcefully taken from voters before previous elections.

Genuine voters were forced to stay home on election days, they alleged.

In one of the incidents, over 100 Aadhaar cards were found at a TMC office at Basanti Debi Colony in the Bidhan Nagar assembly constituency on the eastern outskirts of Kolkata. A number of these cards were issued in 2021, when the TMC won 213 of West Bengal's 294 seats against the BJP's 77.

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