UNI SPECIALSirshendu PanthKolkata, April 27 -- Averring that the Election Commission of India (ECI) should have proceeded more rationally to ensure a huge number of voters were not excluded during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, CPI-M leader Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya has accused the poll panel of "failing to discharge its duty".
In an exclusive interview with UNI, the leading lawyer and the Communist Party of India Marxist (CPI-M) candidate from Jadavpur in the ongoing West Bengal Assembly elections, also claimed that the ECI was gradually losing "the faith of the people", which was "very dangerous for the democratic system".
Referring to the omission of 91 lakh names of people who are alive from the West Bengal voter list,...