electoral roll

Bhubaneswar, March 7 Odisha Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) R S Gopalan said that approximately 90 per cent of the voters in the state have been linked to the 2002 electoral roll.The CEO stated on Friday that this linking process is expected to be completed within the next 15 days, and the...

Kolkata, March 6 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused the BJP of plotting to remove the names of over 1 crore people from the state's voter list through the Systematic Voter Identification and Voter Registration (SVIR) process in its attempt to win the upcoming assembly...

New Delhi, March 5 – The West Bengal Congress unit urged the Election Commission on Thursday to announce the state Assembly election schedule only after all pending cases related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the state's electoral rolls are resolved.The state Congress submitted a...

Kolkata, March 4 – The office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has sent a detailed report to the Election Commission of India headquarters in New Delhi, highlighting deliberate negligence on the part of a section of electoral registration officers (EROs) and assistant electoral...

Kolkata, March 3. More names are likely to be removed from the electoral roll of the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in West Bengal, represented by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, at the end of the ongoing judicial review of voter documents, sources said.According to statistics available from...

Kolkata, March 2 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday evening announced that an additional 100 judicial officers each, from neighboring Jharkhand and Odisha, will join the ongoing judicial process related to voter identity documents flagged under the "logical discrepancy" category...

Kolkata, March 2 – The full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI), led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, is likely to visit West Bengal on March 9 to review the post-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) situation in the state ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections...

In a coordinated political offensive launched a day after the publication of West Bengal's post-SIR electoral rolls, the BJP on Sunday sought to use the deletion of names as a central political platform, alleging that "over 50 lakh infiltrators" had been removed and declaring that "the time has...

Kolkata, February 28 – The final voter list in West Bengal, prepared as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR), was published on Saturday, with a total of 61,78,245 voters being deleted.This figure is likely to increase further, as the identity documents of approximately 60 lakh...

Chennai, February 28 Tamil Nadu has approximately 1.18 crore young voters, and 3,060 assistant electoral registration officers were deployed to register young people, the ECI said.The Election Commission stated this in a report it shared with the media, following a comprehensive review of...

Kolkata, February 27 – The North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal has recorded the highest number of cases currently under review ahead of the publication of the final voter list by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday.As the Commission has already clarified, the final voter...

Chennai, February 27 – Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar reviewed the preparations for the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, which will be announced in the coming days. He announced that female voters continue to outnumber male voters in the state.Following a comprehensive...

Kolkata, February 26 – The final voter list in West Bengal, which will be published on February 28, will include names under two additional categories: "under adjudication" and "deleted", in addition to those listed as genuine voters of the state.This means that the names in the final voter...

New Delhi, February 25 – The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed electoral authorities in West Bengal to ensure that all pending verification documents are submitted by 5 p.m. on February 26 to the judicial officers overseeing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.A bench...

New Delhi, February 25 Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale said on Wednesday that Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar should be "jailed", alleging several irregularities in the ongoing Systematic Voters' Registration (SVRS) process in West Bengal.In a post on X, the TMC leader said...

New Delhi, February 25 The Supreme Court on Wednesday clarified that Class 10 admit cards accompanied by a pass certificate can be produced as supplementary documentation for identity verification in the ongoing SIR exercise in West Bengal.A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and...

New Delhi, February 24 The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court to deploy civil judges and also to requisition judicial officers from neighboring Jharkhand and Odisha to deal with the 80 lakh claims and objections in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision...

Kolkata, February 24 – As the process of judicial review of voter documents identified under the "logical discrepancy" category in West Bengal, which is heading towards elections, began, the judicial officers appointed in four districts near the India-Bangladesh border have sought special...

Kolkata, February 23 Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul held an internal coordination meeting with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal and senior administrative and police officials on Monday regarding the work assigned to judicial officers, officials said.The Chief...

Chennai, February 23 The final electoral roll for Tamil Nadu reveals that women now constitute approximately 51 per cent of the total electorate, outnumbering men by more than 12.21 lakh.According to official data released by Chief Electoral Officer Archana Patnaik on Monday, out of the...