The Trinamool Congress (TMC) is likely to employ the services Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) to identify the “ghost voters” ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections.

TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has told a virtual party meeting attended by several thousand leaders and workers right from the panchayat level that the party was in the process of employing agents and setting upcommittees at various levels to ensure the identification of fake voters.

The agents would be taken from I-PAC sources said.

In the meeting held on Saturday, Banerjee, who is also the nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that “BJP has conspired with the Election Commission of India (ECI), to disenfranchise a large number of Bengal’s electorate” in which case a large number of voters from BJP ruled other States had been have been allotted the same electoral photo identity card (EPIC) numbers in Bengal “so as to manipulate the 2026

Assembly elections.”

The junior Banerjee said that the party rank and file had been alerted of the “nefarious designs of the BJP” after meticulously examining the irregularities in the voters’ lists.

“We have chalked out a comprehensive plan to democratically counteract this fraud,” he said.

Though he would not directly speak about I-PAC insider sources said that the volunteers of the poll agency would be employed in large numbers and “would be assisted by the party workers down to the booth level to avoid any double cross.”

The party would make house-to-house survey of the ID cards of new voters and will appoint booth level agents-1 (BLA-1) in every organisational district.

These agents would coordinate with the district election officers, electoral registration officers, and assistant electoral registration officers of the state administration.  Similarly these agents would be assisted by another booth level agent, he said. The leadership was not keeping anything

to chances.

“Even you cannot believe any professional agency to the full. Everyone and everything is saleable. So each agent will be shadowed by another agent,” a TMC insider said interpreting the tactic of Banerjee who is also the party MP from Diamond Harbour winning the seat by more than 7.5 Lakh votes in 2024.

Earlier, the Chief Minister last month alleged that the BJP had been faking electoral rolls with “ghost voters” from

outside states.

Referring to sample surveys done by the party workers from various areas she said how the BJP was registering 20,000-30,000 fake voters in every Assembly seat. “The ECI will conduct the polls by sending central forces. Voters who do not belong to Bengal will come and cast their votes. We will foil your plans. You employed these plans in Maharashtra, Haryana, Delhi but the leaders there failed to catch your trick. But here we will catch the fake voters. Khela Hobe (a new game will be played in Bengal) until we throw you out of the State,” she had said.

The BJP leadership however countered the TMC’s allegations saying the electoral rolls were prepared by State Government officials and the TMC being the largest party its own members and the government officials should explain the

irregularities if there was one.