Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 21 (IANS) The final electoral roll for Kerala has been published on Saturday evening, following the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), with the total voter strength standing at 2,69,53,644.In the first phase of the SIR exercise, 2.78 crore forms were distributed across the State.After detailed scrutiny, hearings and corrections across all 140 Assembly constituencies, the rolls were finalised.According to the Chief Electoral Officer’s office, 9,06,211 na…
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Jaipur, Feb 21 (IANS) The final electoral roll of Rajasthan was published on Saturday following the successful completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR)-2026 across 199 Assembly constituencies in the state. In Jodhpur, District Collector and Magistrate Gaurav Agarwal released the updated electoral data on Saturday. Constituency-wise data show that the highest number of voter names were deleted in Sardarpura Assembly constituency, represented by Congress leader and former Rajasthan Chief…
Jaipur, Feb 21 (IANS) With 5.15 crore voters now on record, the final electoral roll of Rajasthan was published on Saturday following the successful completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR)-2026 across 199 Assembly constituencies in the state.The final voter list that was published on Saturday put the total number of registered voters at 5,15,19,929, including 2,69,57,881 men, 2,45,61,486 women and 562 third-gender voters.Compared to the draft publication, the final roll shows a net in…
Kolkata, Feb 21 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court Chief Justice, Sujoy Paul, will chair a crucial meeting on Saturday to finalise the blueprint for appointment of serving, as well as retired judicial officers to oversee adjudication of claims and objections arising from the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound West Bengal, which was directed by a three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court on Friday.The meeting to be chaired by Justice Paul will be attended, among ot…
Kolkata, Feb 20 (IANS) The final voters’ list in West Bengal will be published as scheduled on February 28, excluding those cases involving “logical discrepancies” that will be referred to judicial officers for adjudication in compliance with the Supreme Court’s order, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal has assured Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar.According to sources in the CEO’s office, the assurance was conveyed on Friday evening after the Supreme Court directe…
Hyderabad, Feb 19 (IANS) Ahead of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Telangana, a training programme was held here on Thursday for Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) from four key districts. Chief Electoral Officer C. Sudarshan Reddy, on Thursday, conducted a comprehensive training programme at the CEO’s Office in Hyderabad for EROs from Medchal Malkajgiri, Sangareddy, Rangareddy, and Hyderabad.A total of 50 Electoral Registration Officers participated in the …
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) One of the special roll observers overseeing the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has identified a strange case where the name of a Muslim youth had been linked in “progeny mapping” showing a Hindu senior citizen as his father. This strange family link had come to the notice of one of the special roll observers during the phase of “super checking” of the draft voters’ list, which was published in December last year.This strange family link had been identified durin…
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) With only four days left for the scrutiny of the supporting identity documents provided by the voters at the hearing session regarding the claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal, more than 1,14,000 documents submitted during the hearing have yet to be uploaded into the system for final examination.Sources in the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that on Tuesday night, 1,14,772 documents were yet to be uploaded in the system.“Current…
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s announcement claiming that the seven Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) who had been suspended by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on charges of dereliction of duty will be utilised in state administrative duties other than electoral assignments is being view by the poll panel as the partial and negligible implementation of that suspension.Sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Beng…
Kolkata, Feb 17 (IANS) The office of West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), on Tuesday, told about the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s decision to suspend three micro-observers engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state on charges of dereliction of duty. “On the report of ECI-appointed District Electoral Roll Observers, three micro observers have been suspended by the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer today afternoon. Electoral Roll Micro Observers (ERMOs) be…