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Assam: Complaint filed towards Congress’ Sibamoni Bora, for enrolling Bangladeshis in voters listing

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Shortly after Sibamoni Bora, Congress candidate from Assam, bragged about together with Bangladeshis in voter listing with none verification, a authorized criticism has been filed towards her. As reported by News Bharti, Legal Rights Observatory (LRO) has filed a criticism towards the Congress candidate with Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Assam.
Legal Rights Observatory has additional sought prosecution of Sibamoni Bora for her unlawful act of inducting unlawful Bangladeshis in voters listing when she was a BDO with none verification.
In newest replace by LRO, the criticism has been forwarded by the Election Commission Of India to the Chief Electoral Officer, Assam. A time restrict of two days has been arrange for redressal. LRO is assured concerning the cancellation of Sibamoni’s candidature as soon as the investigation authenticates the video put up by Pratidin Time.
#Breaking Our criticism towards @INCAssam Batadroba candidate Sibamoni Bora fwd by @ECISVEEP to @ceo_assam for serving to #Bangladeshi voters. We too wrote CEO Assam. 2 days Redressal time set.Cancellation of nomination certain if video investigated correctly @ripunbora @himantabiswa pic.twitter.com/w3wxqT5z1d— Legal Rights Observatory- LRO (@LegalLro) March 21, 2021
In a video shared by Assamese information channel, Sibamoni Bora will be heard saying, “Me and my father and have been working for you for a long time. A lot of you people have got voting rights because of me, I can claim that. Because when I was a BDO here, when hearings took place (for updating voter lists), I had accepted all the applications without a single house visit. Those who are voting now here, I had enabled them to do so. If I had not done that at that time, you would not have got the voting rights.”
The Congress candidate additional added, “You don’t have to fear about that, because this time the grand alliance will form the government.” She hinted that if Congress-AIUDF mix doesn’t come to energy, they could lose the voting rights, and therefore they need to vote for her.

Sibamoni Bora is constesting from Batadrava which is the birthplace of Srimanta Sankardev, the founding father of Vaishnavism in Assam. However, area has seen massive scale unlawful infiltration from Bangladesh, and huge areas of Bardowa Satra, the Vaishnav monastery, has been encroached by unlawful immigrants from Bangladesh. The Congress is basically relying on the Bangladeshi Muslim voters within the constituency. Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has mentioned that eradicating the encroachers from the Satra land will probably be one of many fundamental priorities of the government if NDA comes again to energy.
In an interview to India Today, Himanta Biswa Sharma asserted that his focus will stay on growth and civilisational battle in Assam. Upon being requested about contemporary spherical of NRC, he mentioned, “I want to request the Supreme Court to revisit some areas in Assam and do a fresh round of NRC. I am on the field all day and I know some people who were handling the process of NRC and have now joined Congress. They let off many people with fake documents. We’re not using NRC as a political tool. It’s a commitment to the people of Assam. Even if Bengali Hindus have been excluded in the NRC, we’ll get them justice through another route. We won’t forcefully include their names in the NRC. We will not compromise with the NRC. Later on, we’ll legitimise them through CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act). We’re for a fresh NRC and we stand with the persecuted Hindus.”