Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that the 1st supplementary list of voters referred for judicial adjudication would not have been published unless she had approached the Supreme Court in the matter.At the same time, Banerjee also launched a scathing criticism of the Election Commission of India (ECI) over the publication of the first supplementary list at midnight on Monday.”Why was the first supplementary list published at midnight? There is…
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Kolkata, March 10 (IANS) A Booth Level Officer (BLO) in West Bengal’s Kakdwip, on Tuesday, approached the state administration after he received threats from a voter of his area after his name was deleted following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. BLO Manindranath Das has been allegedly receiving threatening calls ever since the publication of the final voter list during the first phase of SIR on February 28. A similar threat call was received by the BLO on Monday night. Later, the…
Bhopal, March 9 (IANS) Veteran Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh, on Monday, met the Madhya Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Shrivastava and submitted a memorandum, alleging that thousands of fake names had been added to the voter list in Bhopal’s Narela Assembly constituency. Singh said that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) being conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) is intended to purify the voter list by removing the names of deceased and il…
Kolkata, March 3 (IANS) A momo-seller died by suicide on Tuesday, allegedly after his name was deleted from the electoral rolls of West Bengal post Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. The deceased has been identified as Gouranga De, a resident of ward number 11 of Jalpaiguri town. He used to live in a rented house with his family and is survived by a wife and son.The family claimed that he has been voting for almost 40 years. However, his name was not in the 2002 voter list. He was called…
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) The West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) will hold a protest in the city on Friday as part of its ongoing agitation against Special Intensive Revision (SIR), ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections.The party has demanded the publication of an error-free voter list, alleging large-scale discrepancies in the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls.WBPCC President Subhankar Sarkar announced a 24-hour sit-in in front of the Chief Electoral Officer’s office in Kolkata …
Panaji, Feb 21 (IANS) The Election Commission on Saturday published the final electoral roll for Goa, confirming a total of 10,57,566 eligible voters across the state after the Special Intensive Revision of the rolls.The updated list follows a rigorous verification process aimed at streamlining the electorate and removing discrepancies ahead of upcoming polls.According to the Chief Electoral Officer of Goa, the total number of voters stood at 11,85,034 prior to the draft publication. This initia…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) As the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise nears completion in West Bengal, a Bangladeshi national has been found on the draft voter list, sources in election commission said. It has also been learnt that the woman in question had voted in Bangladesh also. The voter named Monju Rani Saha, has featured on the draft voter list in Bengal under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). She possesses both Indian voter ID card and Aadhaar card. Accordingly, her name was inclu…
Gandhinagar, Jan 31 (IANS) Gujarat has received a total of 1,470,125 applications during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls carried out, according to data released by the state election authorities. The revision exercise was conducted as per the directions of the Election Commission of India to ensure accuracy and inclusiveness of the voter list.The SIR campaign commenced across Gujarat on October 27 last year following which the enumeration process was completed and the…
Chennai, Jan 25 (IANS) Special voter registration camps are being held on Sunday across all 16 Assembly constituencies under Chennai district, covering a total of 4,097 polling stations. The camps are aimed at enrolling new voters and helping eligible voters whose names were removed during the recent revision of the electoral rolls to get re-included.Officials from the Corporation’s election department said the exercise is part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list, which b…
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…