India, Nov. 6 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday accused the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) of issuing birth certificates on a large scale to help "suspicious individuals" who were at risk of being removed from the electoral list during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal, a claim that was rejected by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC)

"This is nothing but a blatant attempt to manipulate Electoral Rolls and undermine the Democratic process. Birth Certificates are legal documents meant for citizens of our country; generally newborns or in some extremely rare cases; people seeking genuine late registrations. Birth Certificates are not tools for political engineering, w...