voter eligibility

New Delhi, March 24 Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien alleged on Tuesday that an "unproclaimed emergency" was being imposed in West Bengal ahead of the assembly elections, and raised concerns over the actions taken by the Election Commission in the poll-bound state.In a blog...

Gangtok, March 23 Municipal elections in Sikkim will be held on April 24, and the vote counting will take place the following day, State Election Commissioner (SEC) K C Lepcha said on Monday.The nomination filing will begin on March 30, and scrutiny will take place on March 31, he told...

Aizawl, March 23 Mizoram's ruling Zoram People's Movement (ZPM) announced its candidates for all seats in the upcoming elections to the Aizawl Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Monday.The opposition Congress also announced six more candidates for the elections, thereby fielding nominees in all 19...

Kolkata, March 23 – The first supplementary list for judicial adjudication of voters classified under the “logical discrepancy category” will be published later on Monday.According to statistics available from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal, as of Sunday night...

Kohima, March 21 – A multi-cornered electoral contest is likely in the April 9 by-election to the Koridang Assembly constituency in Mokokchung district of Nagaland, with major political parties having already announced their candidates.Following the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ally...

Kolkata, March 19 The Left Front announced its second list of 32 candidates for the West Bengal assembly elections on Thursday, with CPI's Shanti Giri from Nandigram and CPI(M)'s Dr Pulin Behari Baskey from Nayagram among the key nominees.During the announcement of the candidate list, CPI(M)...

Kolkata, March 18 – Over 34 per cent of voters in West Bengal, whose judicial adjudication process had been completed by Wednesday night, have been found “ineligible” to be on the electoral rolls.An insider from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal, said that of the...

Ranchi, March 17 CPI(ML) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said on Tuesday that the party will contest in 10 seats in the West Bengal assembly elections as part of the Left Front.He also alleged that the Election Commission failed to ensure that over 60 lakh "under...

Kolkata, March 15 With the Election Commission announcing the assembly poll schedule on Sunday, stating that elections in West Bengal will be held on April 23 and 29, the fate of over 60 lakh "under adjudication" electors, whose voting eligibility is currently under judicial scrutiny, hangs in...

Suri (WB), March 15 Criticizing the Election Commission for unilaterally declaring the election schedule in West Bengal without publishing the supplementary list of cleared voters under the adjudication by judicial officers, the CPI (M) on Sunday questioned the curtailing of the rights of those...

New Delhi, March 15 Elections to the assemblies in Assam, Kerala, and Puducherry will be held on a single day, April 9, in Tamil Nadu on April 23, and in two phases in West Bengal on April 23 and 29, while votes will be counted for all polls on May 4, the Election Commission announced on Sunday...

New Delhi, March 15 A total of 17.4 crore voters are eligible to participate in the upcoming assembly elections in four states – Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam, and Kerala, and one Union Territory, Puducherry, to elect 824 MLAs, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said here on Sunday...

Kolkata, March 14 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused the ruling TMC of opposing the Systematic Identification of Voter Eligibility (SIVE) process to "protect infiltrators", alleging that unchecked illegal immigration under its rule had altered the demographic balance in several...

Kolkata, March 14 – The judicial officers involved in the process of adjudicating voters classified under the "logical discrepancy" category have been able to complete the process for 25% of the voters referred for judicial arbitration by Friday night.Out of these, 34% of the cases for which...

Kolkata, March 12 Following the publication of post-SIR electoral rolls in West Bengal on February 28, Election Commission officials discussed the modalities for publishing supplementary voter lists with Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul on Thursday."The discussion today focused on...

New Delhi, March 10 – Proceedings in the Rajya Sabha turned chaotic on Tuesday as opposition members staged a walkout amid heated exchanges over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, currently underway in several states by the Election Commission of India (ECI).Later, the...

Kolkata, March 6 The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday alleged a lack of transparency in the publication of electoral rolls for the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections, and urged the Election Commission to ensure compliance with the directions of the Supreme Court.In a letter to the Chief...

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 6 Ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will begin a sit-in here on Friday to protest against alleged arbitrary deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls in the state.The protest comes just two days before the planned visit of the full bench...

Kolkata, February 26 The post-SIR electoral rolls will be published on February 28 in West Bengal, with all 7.08 crore names from the draft list appearing in it, but segregated into three distinct categories – approved, deleted, and adjudication/under consideration, an EC official said on...