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News India Live, Digital Desk: In Indian politics these days, a new tornado has arisen over the alleged manipulation of voter lists. This issue is no longer limited to any one state, but has reached West Bengal from Bihar, where it is also being linked to the fears of the National Register (NRC). All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi has directly raised a finger on the Election Commission in Bihar. They allege that millions of names of Dalit and Muslim community are being disappeared from the voter list or wrong entries are being done in their place. He has described it as a well-planned conspiracy, so that these classes can be denied their constitutional rights, ie voting. Owaisi especially cited Purnia, where a large number of such fraud has been accused. Soon after the issue arose in Bihar, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee also jumped into it. Supporting Owaisi’s claims, he expressed his concern that in his government, the names of millions of people have been removed in the name of connecting Aadhaar card to the voter list. Mamta Banerjee clearly warned that if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comes to power in the state, the names of millions of people will be removed from the voter list by declaring ‘Angarik’. He called upon the people to be vigilant and raise their voice against any effort, which would try to take away their voting rights. His statement, last time the political tug of tug of NRC has been brought to the headlines again. However, the BJP has rejected all these allegations. BJP leaders say that this is just confusion and vote bank politics spread by the opposition. They insist that the Election Commission is an autonomous and impartial institution, and any change in voter lists is done as per rules, which does not have any interference of any political party. BJP leaders also said that their government’s welfare schemes are not made by seeing religion or caste, but for the welfare of every citizen of the country, and the opposition only wants to spread communal disharmony. The controversy has now become a matter of deep concern in political corridors in view of the Lok Sabha elections and possible assembly elections in Bihar and West Bengal. While the opposition is calling it an attack on democracy, the ruling party is calling it an election maneuver. It will be interesting to see in which direction the game of this allegation goes and how Indian voters react to these claims.