A day after the UIDAI authorities informed the Chief Electoral Officer, West Bengal, that nearly 34 lakh Aadhaar card holders in the state were found to be ‘deceased’, since the introduction of Aadhaar cards in January 2009, the TMC has accused the Election Commission (EC) and the BJP of orchestrating “Silent Invisible Rigging” to steal votes by marking alive citizens as dead.

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has also informed the EC that about 13 lakh people in the state never possessed Aadhaar cards, but have since died.

The information was shared during a meeting between UIDAI officials and West Bengal CEO Manoj Kumar Agarwal, amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

According to officials, the EC is trying to spot the names of dead vo

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