New Delhi, Jun 27 (PTI) The ‘Special Intensive Revision’ of electoral roll proposed to be carried out in Bihar will have “devastating” effects on voting rights and also on citizenship, All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) MP Saket Gokhale alleged on Friday. In a post on X, he said those failing to provide the documents required for the revision can easily be branded as “foreigners”, and losing voting rights is not the only danger. Also Read | Big Relief for Commuters! Government To Slash Toll on Elevated Highways, Flyovers and Tunnels to Half; Check Details. “Modi Government is taking away your right to vote and bringing in the NRC (National Register of Citizens) using the Election Commission. Yesterday, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee raised a very important issue which will have devastating effects not only on your voting rights but also your citizenship,” Gokhale said. He said as per the exercise, voters, new and existing, will have to provide within one month proof of birth and birthplace for those born before July 1987, proof of birth and birthplace for self and one parent for those born between July 1987 to December 2004, and proof of birth and birthplace for self and both parents for those born after December 2004. Also Read | Jagannath Rath Yatra in Puri: Adani Group Starts Free ‘Prasad Seva’ for Pilgrims at Puri Dham in Odisha (Watch Videos). “If these documents are not submitted within a month, your name will be deleted from the voter list. ECI has started this exercise with Bihar polls and will be doing it in West Bengal and all other states after December,” he said. The AITC MP said it is “dangerous”, because “a large number of people in India do not have copies of their birth certificate let alone of their parents”. “Across rural India, many people have had home births – which means they never got a birth certificate. It is impossible for anyone to secure these documents within a month. If they don’t they lose their voting rights,” he said. “Those failing to provide these documents can easily be branded as ‘foreigners’. Losing voting rights is not the only danger. The Modi government can easily strip away the citizenship of those who don’t have these documents,’ he said. Gokhale alleged that through this move, the Modi government is using the Election Commission to “make mass deletions of legitimate voters, and use the deletions to question people’s citizenship”. He demanded the ECI to roll back the decision. “The purpose of this new exercise is to manipulate Bengal elections for the BJP and then replicate this model all over India. The ECI must be forced to roll back and scrap this dangerous and sinister program which will be used for deleting voters & even snatching their citizenship,” he added. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued instructions to carry out a Special Intensive Revision in Bihar to weed out ineligible names and ensure all eligible citizens are included in the electoral roll, allowing them to exercise their franchise in the polls slated later this year. (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)