Kolkata, Jan 18 (IANS) With less than a month left for both completion of the hearings on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal as well as the publication of the final voters’ list, the Election Commission of India (ECI), has now set a target to complete 7,00,000 hearings a day through 6,500 hearing centres scattered all over the state.The Commission is of the view that this is neither an unachievable target nor a herculean task, considering that the electoral officers i…
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Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 17 (IANS) The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on Saturday sought urgent intervention by the Election Commission to address what it described as serious confusion and large-scale disruption caused by the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process of electoral rolls in the state, warning that lakhs of genuine voters risk being disenfranchised if corrective steps are not taken immediately.A KPCC delegation led by Working President P.C. Vishnunath MLA, along wi…
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 …
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) After Farakka in Murshidabad, another BDO office has been vandalised, this time in the Chakulia area of North Dinajpur district. On Thursday, allegations of vandalism and arson at the Gorakhpur II BDO office in Chakulia surfaced during protests against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list in the state.According to police sources, several people blocked the state highway and staged a demonstration. Those who were summoned for the SIR hearing were primarily…
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday issued a notice for a hearing on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list in West Bengal to Trinamool Congress’ Rajya Sabha member, Samirul Islam.It is learnt that Islam had been served a notice for a hearing as a “logical discrepancy” case, because of the mismatches in his name and that of his father in the current voters’ list with that in 2002, the last time a revision exercise in the voters’ list was…
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) is concerned regarding the slow rate of verification of identification documents provided by “unmapped” voters who have participated in the current hearing sessions concerning the draft voters’ list in West Bengal.Amid this situation, the Commission has directed the District Magistrates (DMs), who are also the District Electoral Officers (DEOs), to expedite the process of document authentication, considering that the deadline for publ…
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) will consider the record of election-related violence in the last seven elections in West Bengal since 2014 as the determining factor for the extent and pattern of Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) deployment for the 2026 Assembly polls in the state.These seven elections, whose poll-violence records will be under ECI’s consideration, include the Lok Sabha elections in 2014, 2019, and 2024, the state Assembly elections in 2016 and 2021…
Kolkata, Jan 14 (IANS) The West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) on Wednesday submitted a memorandum to the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal, alleging serious irregularities and harassment of people regarding notices for hearings related to voter list revision.On Wednesday, state Congress Vice-President Prashant Dutta and General Secretary Ashutosh Chatterjee jointly lodged the complaint, demanding an immediate investigation and necessary action.At the same time, state Congr…
Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday rejected allegations by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) that two of its former Rajya Sabha members were summoned for hearings during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls without valid grounds. Earlier in the day, reports emerged that former TMC Rajya Sabha MP and ex-Mohun Bagan football club president Swapan Sadhan Bose, popularly known as Tutu Bose, and his son Srinjoy Bose — also a former Rajya Sabha MP a…
Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has criticised the West Bengal government and the Trinamool Congress over the purported attack on a member of the National Commission for Women (NCW) probing the sexual assault case of a minor girl at Uttarpara in Hooghly district.In a social media post on Tuesday, BJP’s Information Technology Cell chief, Amit Malviya referred to an incident where some people reportedly associated with the ruling Trinamool Congress made an alleged attempt t…