Mumbai, Aug. 4 -- Launching a scathing attack on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nationalist Congress Party (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar has leveled explosive allegations of electoral malpractice, accusing the party of orchestrating a parallel and unlawful voter-categorization system under the guise of the Election Commission's 'Special Intensive Revision' (SIR) campaign.
Drawing parallels to contentious electoral rolls in West Bengal-where opposition-leaning voters were allegedly disenfranchised or relocated-Pawar claimed that the BJP has activated its Booth Level Agents (BLAs) to unlawfully profile citizens into categories of "ours," "suspect," and "opposition." Questioning the authority behind such a parallel machinery while official a...