New Delhi, April 9 The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has raised serious concerns over large-scale deletions from electoral rolls in West Bengal, with its General Secretary M A Baby writing to the Election Commission seeking urgent intervention.In a letter addressed to Chief Election...
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Kolkata, March 29 The Election Commission released the third supplementary voter list under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal.However, the poll panel did not provide details on the total number of deletions or inclusions in the third list, which was made...
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Kolkata, March 22 A 54-year-old booth-level officer in West Bengal's Malda district died of a heart attack, with his family alleging that excessive work pressure related to the SIR exercise in the state caused his death.The BLO, identified as Utpal Thakur, suffered a heart attack at around...
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Kolkata, March 22 The West Bengal government has directed all district magistrates to take precautionary measures to maintain law and order during the publication of the supplementary electoral rolls on March 23.A senior official said a communication issued by the Home and Hill Affairs...
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Kolkata, March 13 The first supplementary electoral rolls, following the EC's publication of the final voter list in the SIR exercise on February 28, are expected to be released before the end of next week, poll panel sources said on Friday.The list will cover some of the nearly 60 lakh voters...
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Kolkata, March 7 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that voter deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls were aimed at dividing the state.Addressing a gathering during her demonstration against the alleged arbitrary deletions from the electoral roll in the state...
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Kolkata, March 7 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee continued her protest against alleged arbitrary deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls on Saturday, for the second consecutive day, after she spent the night at the protest site here.Banerjee had begun the demonstration at Metro...
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Kolkata, March 6 Trinamool Congress national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee appealed to people to "boycott the BJP" in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, alleging that the party was targeting voters through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.Banerjee made...
Kolkata, March 6 In a dramatic return to street politics that defined her rise, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday launched a protest in central Kolkata against large-scale deletions in the state's voter rolls following the SIR exercise, escalating the TMC's confrontation with...
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Kolkata, March 6 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee began a protest sit-in here on Friday to protest alleged arbitrary deletions from the post-SIR electoral rolls, escalating the TMC's confrontation with the Election Commission ahead of the state assembly polls.Launching the protest at...
Kolkata, March 4 As the West Bengal assembly elections approach, an unlikely political alignment is taking shape, with the ruling TMC, the opposition CPI(M) and Congress raising similar concerns about the post-electoral roll revision process.The key issue is the Election Commission's roll...
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Kolkata, March 2 – A 28-year-old man died of a stroke in Birbhum district, West Bengal, with his family alleging that he had been under stress after his name was placed in the “under adjudication” category in the final electoral rolls published following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR)...
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Kolkata, March 1 The TMC on Sunday accused the EC of carrying out what it described as "silent, invisible rigging" during the voter revision process in West Bengal, alleging that prominent figures such as cricketer Richa Ghosh, ministers Shashi Panja and Md Ghulam Rabbani, and chief secretary...
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Kolkata, February 28 The districts of Murshidabad and Malda, which have a Muslim-majority population, have the highest number of voters whose documents have not yet been verified, according to the final electoral rolls issued by the Election Commission following the Systematic Area Verification...
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Kolkata, February 28 – In a major electoral reset barely two months before the West Bengal Assembly elections, around 63.66 lakh names, nearly 8.3% of the electorate, have been deleted from the state’s voter list since the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) began in November last year, reducing...
Kolkata, February 28 Over 63 lakh names were deleted from the pre-SIR electoral rolls in West Bengal, resulting in the revised total electorate of a little over 7.04 crore, Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal said on Saturday.The voter count exceeded 7.66 crore in the state before the...
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Kolkata, February 28 According to Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal, the total number of voters in West Bengal's electoral rolls after the revision exercise, including deletions and additions, stood at over 7.04 crore.The electoral roll revision process resulted in the deletion of...
New Delhi, February 28 – The 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...
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...