Akhil Gogoi claims Dilip Saikia asked Ashok Singhal to engineer voter lists in 60 Assam seats

Sivasagar MLA Akhil Gogoi on January 5 made serious allegations against the BJP leadership in Assam, claiming that senior party functionaries were conspiring to manipulate the ongoing Special Revision (SR) of electoral rolls to ensure the party’s victory in the 2026 Assembly elections.

In a live interaction on social media, Gogoi said that on the evening of January 4, around 8 pm, he came across a video conference involving Assam BJP state president Dilip Saikia, state ministers, MLAs and other party leaders. 
The meeting, he claimed, was ostensibly held to discuss preparations for the wall-writing campaign scheduled for January 5. However, Gogoi alleged that discussions during the video conference went far beyond campaign logistics and focused on the electoral rolls.

“I was shocked by what I heard. After listening to that video conference, I could not sleep the entire night,” Gogoi said, claiming he had heard the statements “with my own ears”. 

According to the Raijor Dal legislator, Dilip Saikia, allegedly directed minister Ashok Singhal to take charge of voter list “corrections” in 60 Assembly constituencies, with the objective of deleting the names of eligible voters from the electoral rolls.

Gogoi further alleged that during the same video conference, Dilip Saikia instructed BJP MLAs, district presidents and mandal presidents to submit booth-wise lists of voters who do not vote for the BJP by January 12, so that their names could be deleted from the rolls. He claimed Saikia explicitly stated that responsibility for these 60 constituencies had been assigned to Ashok Singhal to “correct” the voter lists.

Accusing the BJP of attempting to “engineer the Assam voter list according to its own convenience”, Gogoi said the alleged instructions amounted to a direct assault on democracy and the integrity of the electoral process. 

He challenged Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to publicly release the video recording of the January 4 conference if his allegations were incorrect.

Taking his challenge further, Gogoi said he was willing to undergo a narco-analysis test if proven wrong and demanded a judicial inquiry into the matter. “If what I am saying is false, let it be proven. But if it is true, then this is a very serious conspiracy against the people of Assam and their right to vote,” he said.

The BJP leadership has not yet responded to Gogoi’s specific allegations regarding the video conference and the purported instructions on voter list deletions.