Ranchi, Sept. 3 -- Voter disenfranchisement threatens to spread to more states as Booth-level agents (BLAs) of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) submit Form 7 applications in bulk, seeking to delete Muslim voters during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Jharkhand.

The BLAs submitted the forms to the respective booth-level officers (BLOs), but a face-off took place when the agents sought the BLOs' signatures on the receiving documents.

Following reports of misuse of Form 7 submissions in Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Odisha, Jharkhand has now come under the scanner as an Indian Express investigation unveiled that BJP's BLAs themselves confessed to filing forms en masse targeting voters from the ...