electoral rolls

Kolkata, February 13 Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Friday directed that all records related to the Systematic Area Verification (SAV) of electoral rolls be preserved for five years and warned of strict disciplinary action against officials found responsible for errors or...

Kolkata, February 13 The Election Commission on Friday appointed retired IPS officer NK Mishra as the special observer for the ongoing Systematic Area Verification (SAV) exercise and the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections.In an official communication, the EC stated that Mishra was...

Kolkata, February 13 In a bizarre turn of events, a school teacher and social worker who arranged the donation of his deceased mother's cornea was arrested and spent three days in jail on charges of selling her body parts, before being granted bail by a court here, officials said on Friday...

Kolkata, February 13 CPI(M) general secretary MA Baby said on Friday that his party was willing to cooperate with the Congress wherever possible, including in West Bengal, provided it "realizes" the importance of working with secular, democratic, and progressive forces.Addressing a press...

Kolkata, February 13 A row has erupted in West Bengal ahead of the closure of the SIR exercise, following reports that unauthorized forms are being circulated to include "unmapped voters" who failed to submit required documents during enumeration.Allegations have surfaced that such forms were...

New Delhi, February 13 The newly appointed chief secretary of West Bengal will meet the Election Commission's top brass here on Friday, officials said.Nandani Chakravarty assumed office as the state's chief secretary in January."It is natural that a relatively new chief secretary of a state...

Kolkata, February 12 The Election Commission will hold a virtual meeting with the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, and district officials on Friday to review poll preparations, a senior official said."During the meeting, we will review how poll preparations have...

Patna, February 12 CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya criticized the Narendra Modi government at the center on Thursday for introducing the new labor codes, replacing MNREGA with the VB G RAM G scheme, and agreeing to a trade deal with the US.The left-wing leader spoke to PTI...

Kolkata, February 12 West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose said on Thursday that the "Special Intensive Revision (SIR)" was now a "closed chapter" following the Supreme Court's verdict and expressed confidence that the Election Commission will conduct the upcoming Assembly elections in the state...

Kolkata, February 11 The Election Commission has decided to set up polling stations in 78 large residential complexes in West Bengal, and the list of such housing societies will be published on February 25, a senior official at the poll panel said on Wednesday.The decision comes amid the...

Revised final voter list released in AssamIn Assam, the Election Commission released the revised final voter list for all 126 Assembly constituencies in Assam on Wednesday. According to the list, the total number of voters in the state is 24,958,139. According to the Chief Electoral Officer...

Guwahati, February 10 After a Special Revision (SR), the Election Commission published the final voter list for the upcoming elections in Assam on Tuesday, with over 2.43 lakh names deleted from the draft list.At the end of claims and objections, the final list has been published with a total...

Kolkata, February 10 The Election Commission on Tuesday revised the schedule for the Systematic Voters' Registration (SVRS) exercise in West Bengal, announcing that the state's final electoral rolls will now be published on February 28.In a letter to the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal...

Kolkata, February 9 The West Bengal Congress held a demonstration in central Kolkata on Monday, alleging that the Election Commission was attempting to remove the names of legitimate voters from the electoral rolls through the SIR (Special Intensive Revision).The rally, led by state Congress...

Kolkata, February 9 The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has received thousands of applications for domicile certificates in the past one-and-a-half months, an unprecedented surge linked to the Election Commission's ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, officials said...

New Delhi, February 9 Amidst West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's apprehension of "mass disenfranchisement" of voters in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state, the Supreme Court on Monday said it would not allow anyone to obstruct the exercise.A bench...

Jammu, February 9 Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Monday that the government is making necessary arrangements to hold elections to urban local bodies and panchayats in the Union territory at the earliest, but said that the post of state election commissioner is presently...