Kolhapur, Feb. 28 -- Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader and former MP Kirit Somaiya has said "not a single Bangladeshi citizen will remain in the state's voter list following ongoing voter purification programme in the state and not a single citizen of the State will be deprived of voting".
In a press conference held on Friday evening, Somaiya said that he will meet district collectors under the purification programme to request them to submit in this regard whether there were illegal residents of Bangladeshi origin in the areas.
Somaiya said that so far, three lakh birth certificates were issued to Bangladeshis in the state, which have now been cancelled. Two thousand birth certificates were issued in Naveen Panvel in two months a...