Supporting the Election Commission’s move for a Special Intensive Revision (S.I.R) of the electoral roll in Bihar, BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Sunday welcomed the initiative and called for a similar drive in West Bengal to weed out "infiltrators" with fake documents.

“This is a good step and necessary for ensuring transparency in elections. It’s high time Bengal also undergoes a similar revision. Those who have entered the country illegally and managed to get fake Aadhaar and voter ID cards should be removed from the voter list,” Adhikari said while speaking to the media.

He alleged that thousands of infiltrators in Bengal are illegally enrolled as voters and accused successive state governments of allowing this “with political intent.” According to Adhikari, such individuals pose a threat not just to fair elections but to national security as well.

“Only citizens of this country should have the right to vote. Bengal’s voter list must be cleaned up. We cannot allow people with forged documents to influence the democratic process,” he asserted.

His remarks come amid an ongoing political storm in Bihar, where opposition leaders have challenged the EC’s S.I.R order in the Supreme Court, calling it arbitrary and discriminatory. The EC, however, has defended the move, citing the need to clean electoral rolls of ineligible names due to urbanisation, migration, and document fraud.

Adhikari’s comments are expected to stir debate in West Bengal, where the ruling Trinamool Congress has often accused the BJP of using the "infiltrator narrative" to polarise voters.