As many as 59 ghost voters still haunt a single booth at a village in Katwa in Burdwan East district, and they have been “spooking” the voters’ lists freely for more than a decade, according to a complaint lodged yesterday by the BJP with the Election Commission of India. This period has witnessed pairs of General, Assembly and Panchayat elections.

The “ghostly story” has emerged from the dark on the eve of the commencment of the Special Intensive Review (SIR) of electoral rolls. The BJP’s Mandal Committee president in Katwa, Suryadev Ghosh, claimed: “The ruling Trinamul Congress intentionally concealed the matter so as to use the names of such ghost voters for proxy voting during elections.”

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The booth in question is No. 258 of Koara village under Polsona Panchayat in Katw

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