Siliguri, March 01 (TSP Bangla) – The Trinamool Congress on Sunday alleged that the name of World Cup-winning Indian women’s cricketer Richa Ghosh has been placed in the “under adjudication” category in the voter list published on February 28, and accused the Election Commission of India of carrying out a “silent invisible rigging” exercise.
Ghosh, who lives in Ward No. 19 under the Siliguri Municipal Corporation, recently joined the West Bengal Police as a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP). She has also taken charge as Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in the Siliguri Police Commissionerate.
The TMC in a post on X said, “The farce of @BJP4India and @ECISVEEP’s silent invisible rigging reaches new lows of absurdity.” “A World Cup-winning star like Richa Ghosh, Bengal’s pride, India’s hero, the wicketkeeper-batter who donned the blue jersey and brought glory to the nation, has now been placed ‘under adjudication’ in the final electoral rolls,” the party said in the post.
The Trinamool Congress said Richa Ghosh had represented India abroad with distinction and earned the admiration of people across Bengal.
It said she “is forced to endure this humiliating scrutiny, her name flagged, her voter status questioned, her democratic right dangling by a thread in this voter purge.” “When even celebrities and national icons can be arbitrarily targeted, questioned, and subjected to this degrading process, what hope for the common Bengali voter?,” the party asked, drawing parallels between prominent figures like Ghosh and common man also clubbed under the same category in the wake of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
“This is systematic humiliation engineered to disenfranchise, to silence, to erase Bengal’s voice one name at a time,” the TMC said.
The 22-year-old wicketkeeper-batter from Siliguri was part of India’s title-winning squad at the 2025 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, which the team won earlier this year.
