Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said the government will throw out every "ghuspetiya" from the country and alleged that some political parties are opposing the SIR exercise as they want the names of infiltrators to remain on the electoral rolls.

Addressing the BSF Diamond Jubilee (61st Raising Day) celebrations in Bhuj, Shah said SIR is the “purification” of the voters’ list.

Shah’s remarks on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters’ rolls came a day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote a strongly worded letter to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, asking him to immediately halt the exercise , which she claimed was “chaotic, coercive and dangerous.”

Banerjee alleged that the SIR of the electoral rolls in Bengal had reached a “deeply alarmin

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