Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) Representatives of different state and central agencies faced the ire of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, at a crucial meeting between the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) full bench and the nodal officers of different state and central agencies on the forthcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal scheduled later this year.The ECI’s full bench, headed by the CEC, is currently on a two-day visit to West Bengal to review the progress of the judici…
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Kolkata, March 7 (IANS) Completing the ongoing judicial adjudication of voters’ documents classified under the ‘logical discrepancy’ category under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal will take at least another month, if not more, according to estimates from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal.“The total number of ‘logical discrepancy’ cases referred for judicial adjudication was a little over 60 lakh. Till Friday night, the adjudication process h…
Kolkata, March 6 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Friday named a three-member delegation that will meet the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in Kolkata on Monday.The delegation includes Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra from the Krishnanagar constituency in Nadia district, Rajya Sabha MP Samirul Islam and West Bengal Minister of State for Finance (Independent Charge) Chandrima Bhattacharya.A Trinamool Congress insider said the delegation will press the demand that the election schedu…
Kolkata, March 6 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of marking several alive voters dead in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.”Some of these voters are here with us today. The Commission should feel ashamed that it had marked voters who are alive as dead in the SIR process. But today they are here to prove that they are still alive. The ECI is acting as an agent of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is itself a sh…
Kolkata, March 6 (IANS) The 200 judicial officers from the two neighbouring states of Jharkhand and Odisha will reach West Bengal by Saturday, and join from March 9, the ongoing exercise of the judicial adjudication of the voters’ documents identified under the “logical discrepancy” category by the Election Commission of India (ECI). They will be undergoing a two-day training programme on the judicial adjudication procedure on Saturday and Sunday, and thereafter, from Monday, they will join the …
Kolkata, March 6 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will start her indefinite sit-in demonstration at Esplanade East in Central Kolkata from Friday afternoon against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.As scheduled, Trinamool Congress workers and leaders will start assembling at Esplanade East this morning. The Chief Minister is expected to arrive at the venue at around 2 p.m. and start the demonstration.“As of now, it has been decided that the sit-in demon…
Gandhinagar, March 5 (IANS) IAS Sandip Sagale on Thursday assumed charge as the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Gujarat and on his first day reviewed the functioning and preparedness of the state’s election administration with officials.Sagale took charge following orders issued by the Election Commission of India appointing him to the post last month.Soon after assuming office, he held a review meeting with officers heading various branches of the CEO office to assess the current situation of …
Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday said that the Commission’s full bench, which will visit West Bengal for a two-day tour next week, will have a packed schedule.According to the schedule, the full bench headed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar will arrive in Kolkata on the night of March 8. Over the next two days — March 9 and March 10 — the Commission will review both the ongoing process of judicial adjudication of voters’ documents c…
Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) The office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has sent a detailed report to the Election Commission of India headquarters in New Delhi highlighting deliberate performance derelictions on the part of a section of electoral registration officers (EROs) and assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.The CEO’s office has recommended disciplinary action for EROS and AEROs found guilty of de…
Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday evening informed that 200 additional judicial officers — 100 each from neighbouring Jharkhand and Odisha — will join the ongoing judicial adjudication process relating to voters’ identity documents flagged under the “logical discrepancy” category in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal.The additional judicial officers are expected to join the exercise on March 6.Their deployment is aimed at e…