India, Jan. 9 -- Opposition parties in Assam filed complaints with the Election Commission (EC) and the police on Friday, accusing the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of attempting to delete voters' names during the Special Revision (SR) of the electoral roll.

The Congress, Raijor Dal, Assam Jatiya Parishad, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) filed a complaint at the Dispur police station in Guwahati.

"The president of Assam BJP instructed the party MLAs to take necessary steps for deletion of names in 60 assembly constituencies and also entrusted minister Ashok Singhal in a Zoom meet held on January 4," the complaint, which HT has seen, read.

"This is the evil design to delete names ...