VARANASI, Dec. 14 -- Purification of the voter list is essential to fulfil the goal of a developed India by 2047, Union Jal Shakti minister CR Patil said on Sunday. Taking a swipe at West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Patil said she knows that if the Special Summary Revision (SIR) is implemented, the names of all fake voters would be removed from the list. He also claimed that Banerjee, who had said that no one would fill the SIR form, was the first to submit the form herself.

Patil was addressing booth-level presidents at a booth empowerment and felicitation programme organised by the Varanasi BJP. During the event, 116 BJP booth unit presidents from booths that recorded more than 70% voter turnout in the 2024 Lok Sabha electio...