Kolkata, Jan 24 (IANS) With the deadline for publication of two separate lists of “unmapped” voters and “logical discrepancy” cases identified during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal set to expire at midnight on Saturday, uncertainty prevails over whether the exercise can be completed on time.Sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that the two lists, duly approved by the Election Commission of India (ECI) headquarters in N…
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Kolkata, Jan 24 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Saturday, might publish two separate lists of “unmapped” and “logical discrepancy” cases identified during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal.Earlier this month, the Supreme Court, acting on a petition filed by Trinamool Congress, directed the Commission to publish only the list of “logical discrepancy” cases. However, on January 21, the ECI announced that it would take the apex court’s order…
Kolkata, Jan 21 (IANS) The 12 additional Special Roll Observers (SROs) appointed for West Bengal by the Election Commission of India on Tuesday night to review the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state, are being sent to the state with specific assignment to specially focus on districts having International Borders with Bangladesh and districts with abnormally high number of “logical discrepancy” cases.The eight districts specially identified under these categories are Malda,…
Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) Controversies erupted after an Assistant Electoral Registration Officer (AERO), engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, tendered resignation from the said exercise, accusing that attempts are being made to delete names of several genuine voters from the voters’ list by unnecessarily categorising them as “logical discrepancy” cases.Logical discrepancy cases refer to voters who were identified as having weird family tree data during progeny ma…
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has furnished a breakup of the 91.46 lakh “logical discrepancy” cases identified in the course of “progeny-mapping” during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal.Voters identified as “logical discrepancy” cases are those in whose records unusual family-tree data have been detected during progeny mapping.Although initially, at the end of the enumeration phase, which was the first stage of the three-stage SIR exercis…