West Bengal: BJP MP Arjun Singh has written a letter to the Election Commission to make Pakistani citizens a voter.

Kolkata, October 16 (IANS). Former BJP Lok Sabha member from Barrackpore Arjun Singh wrote a letter to the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday. He told the Commission that a Pakistani citizen of Karachi had become a voter in the Naihati Assembly of the same district of West Bengal. In a letter to West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal, the commission identified the Pakistani national who became a voter in Naihati as Saleha Khatoon alias Saleha Imran. Singh alleged that Saleha Khatoon, holder of Pakistani passport number EU4173171, fraudulently obtained Indian identity documents such as Aadhaar card and Voter ID card (Voter ID number FKY0779223). According to Singh’s letter, the address of the Pakistani national mentioned in the Indian identity documents is 23, AT Ghosh Road, Naihati (Madhya Pradesh), Gaurifa, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, 743166. “His voter ID card is registered in 104-Naihati Assembly Constituency,” Singh’s letter reads. This fraudulent activity is a means of gaining access to other Indian social schemes and is a direct threat to the demographic and security structure of the country. He also requested the office of the Chief Electoral Officer to initiate a high-level and time-bound investigation to identify the election officials who helped Saleha Khatoon to register her name in the electoral roll of West Bengal. He recommended canceling the voter ID card and Aadhaar card. According to former BJP MP Arjun Singh, this case is one of several examples of foreign nationals, particularly Pakistani nationals, operating in the border districts of West Bengal, including North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Murshidabad, Malda, Nadia, Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri, obtaining and enrolling in fake Indian identity cards in the state. “This fraudulent activity is a means of gaining access to other Indian social schemes and is a direct threat to the demographic and security structure of the country,” Singh said in the letter. –IANS SCH