Kolkata, Jan 10 || Controversies erupted after an Assistant Electoral Registration Officer (AERO), engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, tendered resignation from the said exercise, accusing that attempts are being made to delete names of several genuine voters from the voters' list by unnecessarily categorising them as "logical discrepancy" cases.
Logical discrepancy cases refer to voters who were identified as having weird family tree data during progeny mapping.
Alleging that these logical discrepancies are a conspiracy to exclude a large section of the country's marginalised population, Mausum Sarkar, the AERO of the Bagnan Assembly constituency, submitted his resignation letter to the concerned ERO, Achintya Kumar Mandal, requesting to be relieved from his duties related to the SIR.
He submitted the letter on Thursday, and the matter came to light on Friday night after ERO Achintya Kumar Mandal acknowledged receipt of the letter and said that he had forwarded it to the higher authorities.