Mumbai: Forward of the anticipated particular intensive revision of the electoral roll in Maharashtra by the Election Fee, the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) is conducting its personal SIR simulation throughout the state.
Two months in the past, the social gathering had arrange a committee beneath the management of former MP Kirit Somaiya to conduct its personal SIR-like train.
After a number of conferences, website visits and scrutiny of electoral rolls, the fee has compiled a listing of 30 of the 288 seats in Maharashtra which have seen an “unreasonable” enhance (greater than 40 per cent) within the variety of voters between 2009 and 2026. The earlier boundary setting work was accomplished in 2009, and the boundaries of the constituencies have been finalized in 2009, so this 12 months was used as the bottom 12 months.
All these 30 constituencies are Muslim-majority constituencies, Somaiya advised ThePrint. General, there are 38 parliamentary districts with a Muslim inhabitants of greater than 20 p.c.
“If you happen to take a look at predominantly Hindu city constituencies, the variety of voters has remained largely unchanged, however in some Muslim-majority constituencies resembling Malegaon, Mumbra, Malvani, Mankhurd-Shivajinagar, Shirod, Akola and Amravati, the variety of voters has elevated by greater than 30-40 per cent and in some circumstances practically doubled,” Somaiya advised ThePrint.
He mentioned the SIR committee’s responsibility was to “take away all unlawful voters in Bangladesh from the voter checklist.”
“Moreover, we should make sure that all new voters are added to the checklist. In doing so, the fee should put together a battalion of employees to assist SIR workout routines on the bottom.”
Other than Somaiya, the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s SIR committee in Maharashtra has round 12 members, together with Rajya Sabha MP Bhagwat Karad, MLAs Randhir Savarkar and Mangesh Chavan, and former MLA Sunil Rane.
The EC had introduced in February that the following section of SIR, which incorporates Maharashtra, would begin from April.
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BJP’s ‘personal SIR’
Because the committee was arrange on February 11, Somaiya has made 46 visits to confirm voter lists and likewise held conferences with district-level BJP officers concerning the work of the SIR committee.
The previous lawmaker has launched a number of the findings into the general public area and shared them on his social media accounts. On Tuesday, he posted on ‘X’ that there are “1000’s of faux names of voters” in Buldhana’s Chikhari parliamentary constituency. This was adopted by a listing of duplicate Muslim names.
Equally, Somaiya posted on Monday, “There are 18,000 voters with comparable/equivalent names in Malegaon and Dhule voter checklist.”
#buyer in maharashtra
18,000 voters have identical/comparable names in Malegaon and Dhule voter checklist.
they’re
Nabil Ahmad Ansari
Nabil Ahmad Ansari
momin mohammad
Shabanam Pinajari
Shahrukh Pinjari
Nadimuddin Shaikh
sheik danish
sheik danish
Shahid Shekh
sheik danish
Shaykh… pic.twitter.com/Vrf90RCT7B— Kirit Somaiya (@KiritSomaiya) April 13, 2026
He goes on to offer examples of some Muslim names. Together with the publish, he additionally posted a 2024 letter written by BJP’s Dhule parliamentary unit chief Anil Agrawal to the district collector highlighting duplicate names within the voter checklist for Malegaon Central and Dhule metropolis meeting constituencies.
“In some circumstances, one picture is from a youthful age and the opposite is newer. In some circumstances, there could also be one picture with totally different garments and one other picture, and a few with slight modifications resembling beards, glasses, hats, and so on.,” the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering official mentioned within the letter.
Somaiya argued that Maharashtra has the bottom start fee at 1.4-1.6 and there ought to be no dramatic enhance within the voter rolls between 2009 and 2026, however there’s an unnatural enhance in some constituencies.
He mentioned one purpose might be migration and one other might be fraudulent additions.
“In rural areas, there’s not a lot migration. In Mumbai, it’s just about established order when it comes to migration. If you happen to take Mumbai’s 4 Hindu constituencies – Mulund, Dahisar, Chembur and Vile Parle – for instance, the variety of voters in 2009 and 2024 is about the identical.”
“Nevertheless, in Mumbra-Kalwa constituency (with a big Muslim inhabitants), the overall variety of voters elevated to 489,000 from 279,000 in 2009. In Mankhurd, Chandivali, Kurla and Malvani, are densely populated in Muslim areas. It’s the responsibility of the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s SIR committee to review this and establish the unnatural, unreasonable and irregular enhance and discover out the place the voters are coming from,” Somaiya mentioned.
All committee members are given totally different constituencies to scrutinize voter lists and construct groups beneath. They have been requested to type district-level SIR committees and set up workshops in any respect parliamentary ranges.
Additional, the BJP committee is within the strategy of appointing booth-level officers at every sales space stage who will coordinate with the block-level officers of the Election Fee after the beginning of the SIR.
“We’ve got accomplished 80 per cent of the reservations. We need to have all of the infrastructure in place earlier than the EC broadcasts the beginning of the SIR train. As soon as all booth-level personnel are in place, we may also begin door-to-door surveying,” Somaiya mentioned.
(Edited by Tony Lai)
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