Bengal SIR: 25,000 “unmapped” voters from the late Jyoti Basu’s bastion of Satgachia were called in for a hearing

Bengal SIR: In West Bengal, a record 25,000 “unmapped” voters from the single Assembly constituency of Satgachia in the South 24 Parganas district—the home of the late Jyoti Basu, a famous Indian Marxist and former chief minister—have been called to hearings regarding claims and objections on the draft voters’ list.

Since the start of the state’s 34-year Left Front government in 1977, he was actually the last CPI(M) lawmaker from his constituency to be elected to five consecutive terms.

before to his retirement before to the 2001 West Bengal Assembly elections, he served as the Satgachia party lawmaker.

CPI(M) was never able to win an Assembly election from that seat after he retired.

In the 2001 elections, Basu was replaced as the Satgachia representative by Sonali Guha, a powerful member of the Trinamool Congress and a former Deputy Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly.

Guha has been elected four times in a row from that constituency.

Guha, who was once regarded as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s shadow partner, was not given the party’s ticket in the 2021 Assembly election.

Guha became a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after feeling wronged, and she has remained a member of the party to this day. She voiced her displeasure with Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamool Congress before to joining the BJP in advance of the 2021 Assembly elections. After mindlessly following Mamata Banerjee from the start of her political career, first with the Congress and then with the Trinamool Congress, she said she never deserved such treatment.

The general secretary of the Trinamool Congress, Abhishek Banerjee, represents Satgachia, one of the seven Assembly seats within the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency.

The issue has become more well-known in the state’s political circles due to the large number of Satgachia voters who have been called for hearings, both historically and now.