“Where is Abhishek Banerjee? He should see that in Diamond Harbour, the government is his, the BLOs are his, the BLAs are his — so, is this why he is winning elections? Is this not a game of fake voting?” Thakur had alleged.

Ghosh responded by stating that the figures quoted by the BJP leader were “misleading” and collected “with little homework”.

“At the cited House No. N001 of Booth No. 265 in Diamond Harbour, there are currently 41 electors, with the rest accounted for — one deceased, one living in Odisha, three married and moved, and one out of town for work,” he said, responding to Thakur’s claim that fake voters were registered at the said address where the father’s name of the same elector keeps repeatedly changing.

Ghosh urged Thakur to go through the official data sent to him, and challenged him to visit the constituency in person to meet the voters and verify his claims.

With PTI inputs