Lucknow, Jan 6 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh electors whose names have not appeared in the draft electoral rolls published on Tuesday have time till February 6 for filing applications for inclusion in the voter list, Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said on Tuesday.The draft rolls published on Tuesday as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) carry names of 12.55 crore eligible voters while names of nearly 2.89 crore electors have been removed, he said.If a voter’s name is not found in the dra…
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Kolkata, Jan 6 (IANS) As hearing session on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal for the “unmapped” voters was almost complete, the Election Commission of India (ECI), from this week, will start summoning for hearing the “logical discrepancy” cases in the draft list which is 24 per cent of the voters’ enlisted through “progeny mapping”.According to the figure provided by the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, a total of 3.83 crore voters have been…
Kolkata, Jan 6 (IANS) The deployment of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel for the crucial Assembly elections in West Bengal later this year might be double, compared to what it was during the past four elections in the state, including Assembly elections in 2016 and 2021 and the Lok Sabha elections in 2019 and 2024.The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, attended a meeting chaired by the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar at the Election Commi…
New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced that the draft electoral rolls of Uttar Pradesh will be published on Tuesday, marking a crucial step in the state’s electoral preparations, officials said.This exercise, carried out under the supervision of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) and District Election Officers (DEOs), is aimed at ensuring transparency and inclusivity in the voter registration process ahead of the upcoming polls.According to officials, hard copies…
Lucknow, Jan 5 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Monday, announced that the draft electoral rolls of Uttar Pradesh will be published on Tuesday, marking a crucial step in the state’s electoral preparations, officials said. This exercise, carried out under the supervision of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) and District Election Officers (DEOs), is aimed at ensuring transparency and inclusivity in the voter registration process ahead of the upcoming polls.According to officials, …
Kolkata, Jan 5 (IANS) Ahead of the crucial Assembly elections in West Bengal later this year, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday directed the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, to submit weekly and district-wise reports on the law and order situation across the state.As per the Commission’s directive, the district magistrates, who also function as district electoral officers (DEOs), will submit weekly reports on the law and order situation in their respecti…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 5 (IANS) The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) in Kerala on Monday dismissed a news report published in a section of media on Sunday that alleged excessive workload on a young female Booth Level Officer (BLO), terming it “misleading” and an “exaggeration” of facts related to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state.The clarification comes in the wake of a viral news segment which claimed that a female BLO was under sev…
Kolkata, Jan 5 (IANS) Amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has received information about 14 voters who are holding Indian EPIC cards and Bangladeshi passports simultaneously.Based on inputs and suspicions that these 14 voters might be originally Bangladeshi residents, the CEO’s office had sought information about them from the Foreigners’ Regional Registration Office (FRRO) in Kolkata.The FRRO, Kolkata, recently wr…
Kolkata, Jan 5 (IANS) The Chief Electoral Office (CEO), West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, will attend a crucial meeting chaired by the Chief Election Commissioner (CEO), Gyanesh Kumar, at the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s headquarters in Delhi to discuss the requirements for Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) for the state’s Assembly polls, scheduled this year.The meeting will also be attended by the CEOs of the other poll-bound states, namely Assam, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, and the Un…
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday directed the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, to ensure that there is no intervention by booth-level agents (BLAs) or representatives of any political party during the ongoing hearing sessions on the draft voters’ list in the state.The hearings are part of the second stage of the three-stage Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal.The ECI’s direction came in the wake of recent i…