India, Dec. 2 -- Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Tuesday accused the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) of pressuring booth level officers (BLOs) involved in the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) not to delete names of dead voters from electoral roll.

Adhikari posted a purported screenshot of a WhatsApp chat and an audio clip of a conversation as proof for his claim. The authenticity of them could not be independently verified by HT. The office of the state's chief electoral officer (CEO) did not comment on Adhikari's claims.

The purported conversation appeared to have taken place after Subrata Gupta, the special roll observer sent from Delhi by the Election Commission of India (ECI), visited t...