Dual voter ID row: EC notice to Prashant Kishor over name in Bihar, Bengal rolls; seeks reply in 3 days | India News

Dual voter ID row: EC notice to Prashant Kishor over name in Bihar, Bengal rolls; seeks reply in 3 days | India News
October 28, 2025

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Dual voter ID row: EC notice to Prashant Kishor over name in Bihar, Bengal rolls; seeks reply in 3 days | India News


Prashant Kishor (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Tuesday issued a notice to Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor over his double enrollment as a voter in two different states — Bihar and West Bengal. The poll body has sought clarification from the poll strategist-turned-politician within three days.The Returning Officer of the Kargahar Assembly Constituency has issued a letter to Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor, stating: “According to a news report published on October 28, 2025, your name appears in the electoral rolls of both Bihar and West Bengal. Therefore, you are required to submit your explanation within three days regarding the entry of your name in more than one constituency.”According to official documents cited by PTI news agency, Kishor is listed as a voter at 121 Kalighat Road in Kolkata, the address of the Trinamool Congress headquarters in the Bhabanipur constituency — the seat represented by West Bengal chief minister and TMC leader Mamata Banerjee.

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His designated polling booth there is St Helen School on B Ranishankari Lane, officials said.In Bihar, however, Kishor is registered as a voter in the Kargahar assembly segment under the Sasaram parliamentary constituency in Rohtas district, with Madhya Vidyalaya, Konar listed as his polling station.Kishor had previously served as a key political consultant for the TMC during the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections, before turning his focus to his own political movement on ground turf, Jan Suraaj, in Bihar.

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