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Kolkata, March 8 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday alleged that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls conducted in the state, which is heading for elections, was intended to help the BJP in the upcoming Assembly elections.Addressing party workers from her...

Kolkata, March 8 Three assembly constituencies bordering West Bengal's Cooch Behar district – Dinhata, Sitai, and Sitalkuchi – together account for the highest number of voters whose names are currently "under review" in the district, election officials said.According to the Chief Electoral...

Kolkata, March 8 Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, continued her sit-in protest against alleged arbitrary deletions in the post-SIR voter list on Sunday, with the TMC supremo accusing the BJP of "misusing the Vanish Commission to erase legitimate voters from electoral rolls."This...

Bhubaneswar, March 6 – The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Odisha, R.S. Gopalan, on Friday, launched a citizen awareness initiative on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls and appealed to voters in the state, especially those in urban areas, to verify their details in the...

Kochi, March 6 Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar called on all political parties on Friday to ensure that the upcoming Assembly elections in Kerala remain a model not only for the country but also for the world, EC officials said.Kumar, along with Election Commissioners Dr Sukhbir...

Kolkata, March 6 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will begin her indefinite sit-in demonstration at Esplanade East in Central Kolkata on Friday afternoon against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.As planned, Trinamool Congress workers and leaders will start...

Kolkata, March 5 – A Booth Level Officer (BLO) and an elderly person died in West Bengal on Thursday. The deceased's family members alleged that they died due to the heavy workload and panic caused by the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and the voter list in the state.According to...

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 2 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday criticised the Election Commission over the deletion of names from the final electoral rolls of the state following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, and asserted that she would win from the Bhabanipur Assembly...

Mathurapur (WB), March 2 Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday intensified the BJP's campaign against infiltration, stating that while "only the names of infiltrators are being removed now" from the voter rolls, they would be "expelled from the state" once the party comes to power with a full...

Kolkata, March 1 The TMC on Sunday accused the Election Commission of carrying out "silent, invisible rigging" during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), claiming that the names of Indian cricketer Richa Ghosh, West Bengal minister Md Ghulam Rabbani, and three party MLAs have been placed...

Kanpur (UP), March 1 Apparently upset over being denied leave for his daughter's wedding, a 50-year-old Booth Level Officer (BLO) on Special Intensive Revision duty allegedly died by suicide inside a government primary school in Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Sunday.The...

New Delhi, February 28 The combined electoral rolls of eight states and three Union territories have shrunk by nearly 3.13 crore following the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise on Saturday.Now, except Uttar Pradesh, the final electoral rolls of West Bengal, Tamil...

Kolkata, February 28 – The West Bengal BJP on Saturday claimed that more names would have been removed from the state’s electoral rolls if the Election Commission of India (ECI) had been given full freedom to conduct the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.Reacting to the publication of...

New Delhi, February 28 The names of more than 60 lakh voters who were identified as "doubtful" during the special intensive revision exercise in West Bengal have been submitted to judicial officers for adjudication, officials said on Saturday.These names can now only be included through a...

Kolkata, February 28 – The final list of voters in West Bengal, as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state, was published on Saturday.According to statistics, the names of approximately 47,000 voters were removed from the list for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's...

Balasore (Odisha), February 27 Two officials sent to conduct a special intensive revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal mistakenly entered a village in neighboring Balasore district of Odisha and were assaulted by locals, who suspected them of being members of a child-lifting gang, police...

Kolkata, February 27 – With the final voter list for West Bengal to be published on Saturday, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to share soft copies of the list with the registered political parties in the state for transparency.At the same time, the ECI is keeping multiple...

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...

Kolkata, February 26 The Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court held a meeting with the Chief Electoral Officer and top state officials on Thursday to review the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise of electoral rolls in West Bengal, in which judicial officers have been assigned...