Kolkata: Several celebrities like Team India cricketer Mohammad Shami, poet Joy Goswami and actor-Parliamentarian Dev Adhikari, actor Anirban Bhattacharya have been called for hearings by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in connection with the Special Intensive Revision of voter list in Wes
t Bengal.
Now, Trinamool Congress (TMC) has claimed that even Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen has been served a notice by ECI.
TMC, which has been in power in West Bengal since 2011, has been engaged in an intense face-off with the poll body over the manner SIR is being conducted in the state.
On Tuesday, TMC general secretary and Diamon Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee said at a public rally in Birbhum that ECI was targeting Bengal and added that he had heard the 92-year-old economist and philosopher has been asked to appear before the ECI.
However, sources in the Election Commission said it is just about a spelling error in the enumeration form and Sen need not appear before the poll body for a hearing.
Due to a mismatch in the system, a computer-generated notice was sent to the eminent economist. The concerned BLO has been instructed to fix the spelling error, sources said.
Sen casts his ballot in Shantiniketan.