Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) Amid the publication of the final voters’ list in West Bengal minus those whose names have been referred for judicial adjudication as per the direction of the Supreme Court, the Election Commission of India (ECI) will be conducting crucial meetings on Monday and Tuesday to review the post-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) scenario in the state as part of its preparations for the forthcoming Assembly election.The meetings will be conducted in two phases, starting from 11 …
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Kolkata, Feb 28 (IANS) The final voters’ list in West Bengal, prepared as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR), was published on Saturday, with the total number of deleted voters standing at 61,78,245.The figure is likely to increase further, as identity documents of around 60 lakh voters are currently under judicial adjudication by judicial officers appointed by the Election Commission of India (ECI), following directions of the Supreme Court.Announcing this at a press confere…
New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) The hearing process to address “logical discrepancies” identified during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal has concluded, paving the way for the publication of the final voters’ list on Saturday. During the revision exercise, more than 58 lakh names, including deceased, duplicate and shifted voters, were found eligible for deletion and excluded from the draft roll released in December.The updated list will feature two additional…
Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) The final voters’ list in West Bengal, which will be published on February 28, will have names under two additional categories of “under adjudication” and “deleted”, apart from those enlisted as genuine voters of the state.This means that the names in the final voters’ list will be specified under three categories.West Bengal’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal told media persons on Thursday evening that the “under adjudication” category will have the nam…
Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court, on Thursday, sought 200 judicial officers — 100 each from the High Courts of Odisha and Jharkhand — to join the team of judicial officers already appointed for adjudication of voters’ documents identified under the “logical discrepancy” category.The decision to seek these 200 judicial officers from the neighbouring states was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul. The meeting was attended by C…
Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) The office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, on Wednesday sought a detailed and comprehensive report from the Kolkata Police Commissioner, Supratim Sarkar, in connection with the incident involving the heckling of the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, in front of the CEO’s office in central Kolkata on Tuesday evening.While the Leader of the Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari, accompanied by a group of se…
Kolkata, Feb 22 (IANS) As the deadline for the expiration of the scrutiny phase of the voters’ documents submitted during the hearing session on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal has concluded, uncertainty remains regarding the number of voters’ documents classified as “logical discrepancy” cases that are to be verified by the judicial officers, as instructed by a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court.The deadline ended on Saturday midnight 12. At the meeting chaire…
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 14 (IANS) The phase of hearings on claims and objections to the draft voters’ list in West Bengal is expiring at 12 midnight on Sunday, with 6.25 lakh additional names already being identified as eligible for exclusion in the final voters’ list. Since the phase of scrutinising the documents submitted at the hearing session will continue for seven more days, until February 21, the number of additional names found suitable for exclusion in the final voters’ list will automatically inc…
Kolkata, Feb 13 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday announced the appointment of retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer N.K. Mishra as Special Observer to review the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal.In a communication informing him of his appointment, ECI Under Secretary M.L. Meena directed Mishra to exercise his authority to ensure that the Commission’s guidelines for the revision exercise are strictly followed.“As a Special…