Kolkata, Feb 16 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) had directed the office of the West Bengal Chief Secretary, Nandini Chakraborty, to immediately suspend seven more assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state on charges of dereliction of duty.To recall, earlier in August last year, the ECI had directed the state government to suspend and register FIRs against two electoral registration officers (EROs) and two …
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Kolkata, Feb 14 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday sent a fresh communication to the West Bengal government seeking clarification over the inclusion of several Group-C state government employees in the list of 8,505 Group-B officers submitted by the state for deployment as micro-observers in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, as directed by the Supreme Court earlier this month.“Almost 30 per cent of the 8,505 names in the list provided by th…
Kolkata, Feb 14 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) should directly initiate disciplinary action against errant electoral officers at different levels accused of deliberate irregularities in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, instead of sending repeated advisories to the state government to act against them, Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari said on Saturday.“The ECI has every right to directly take action against errant e…
Kochi, Feb 14 (IANS) The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Kavaratti, has announced the final publication of the Photo Electoral Rolls for 2026 in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep, following a Special Intensive Revision conducted under the directions of the Election Commission of India.The revision exercise, with January 1, 2026, as the qualifying date, was carried out from December 16, 2025, to February 14, 2026. The final rolls were published on Saturday, February 14, after the di…
Kolkata, Feb 13 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) said on Friday that the documents related to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal will be preserved for the next five years. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, gave this direction at a virtual meeting, which was attended among others, by the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, his subordinate officers in the CEO office, all the district magistrates, the district electoral off…
Kolkata, Feb 13 (IANS) The full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) will hold a crucial virtual meeting with all the top electoral officers in West Bengal, as well as the district magistrates and the district electoral officers, on Friday, ahead of the phase of the scrutiny of voters’ identity documents starting from Saturday.The extended deadline for completing hearings on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in the state will end on Saturday. The phase of the scrutin…
Kolkata, Feb 12 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has expressed concern over instances of “unlisted” documents being accepted as supporting identity proof by Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) during hearings related to the draft electoral roll in West Bengal.Hearings on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list are currently under way in the state, alongside verification of supporting identity documents submitted duri…
Kolkata, Feb 7 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday sought the attention of the Election Commission of India (ECI) and requested it to look into reported incidents of forgery of signatures of micro-observers appointed for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the State, allegedly in his native district of East Midnapore.In a statement issued on Saturday afternoon, the Opposition leader claimed that in the Deshapran block of the Uttar Kanthi A…
Kolkata, Jan 31 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has cautioned that clearing and uploading unlisted identity documents as listed ones during hearings on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal will be treated as “grave and deliberate” lapses by Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs).Sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that the micro-observers appointed by the …
Kolkata, Jan 17 (IANS) Amid controversies over the identity-proof document verification during SIR, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed the Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and the District Magistrates (DMs), who are also the District Electoral Officers (DEOs), to send separate reports on the progress of document verification daily henceforth.The Commission, at the same time, had also directed the EROs and DEOs to follow a two-stage document verification process, the first …