On first day of SIR, Bangladeshi citizen found in Bengal voters’ list with in-laws mistaken as parents in voter card

Kolkata – In a surprising story that grabbed headlines today, a Bangladeshi man living in West Bengal was exposed during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Basirhat. The family’s voter ID card contained shocking errors: the father‑in‑law was listed as his biological father, the mother‑in‑law as his mother, and even the man’s name was wrong.

The man, Rashidul Gazi, originally from Satkhira in Bangladesh, is believed to have entered India illegally in 2012. After crossing the border near Basirhat, he went on to work in Tamil Nadu, where he met and fell in love with a woman named Rumesh from Hingalganj. The couple later married, but Rashidul needed a local identity card for the paperwork. Officials altered his name to Abdul Gazi shortly after the wedding, a change that made his name appear in the Hingalganj voter list for booth 208.

After the mistake was discovered, locals in Hingalganj protested, raising questions about how and why the ID was issued incorrectly. Police from Basirhat district are now investigating, but no formal complaint has yet been filed. The district administration has been alerted, and officials say “we are looking into the matter.”

This case highlights the challenges of border‑crossing residents and the need for accurate voter registration in West Bengal’s rapidly changing population. Key topics include West Bengal immigration, SIR exercise results, voter ID errors, and the story of Rashidul Gazi, now known as Abdul Gazi.

Source: ianslive


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