voter list revision

The Election Commission has released the third supplementary voter list under the SIR process in West Bengal. This announcement was made late last night. While the exact number of voters included or excluded has not been disclosed.This publication marks another step in the ongoing revision of...

Darjeeling, March 29 – In Darjeeling, the fading graffiti demanding "We Want Gorkhaland" now shares space with signs for roads, tourism, and welfare schemes – a reflection of how the politics of the hills is shifting from the aspiration for statehood to the demands of everyday governance.For...

New Delhi, March 27 Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday alleged that the West Bengal government had openly facilitated infiltration and said it was obvious that the state where the highest number of such people have been granted citizenship will see the most names removed during the Special...

Kolkata, March 23 West Bengal Congress president Subhankar Sarkar on Monday alleged that the ongoing voter list revision process in the state is undermining democracy, claiming that many eligible voters are being left out without due recourse.Sarkar said that compared to other political...

Kolkata, March 17 The political rivalry in Nandigram that defined West Bengal’s 2021 assembly polls is set to return to the forefront, with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her former protégé, Suvendu Adhikari, competing in Bhabanipur, effectively making it the likely key battleground for the...

Kolkata, March 16 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused the BJP government at the Centre of attempting to deprive the Matua community of their citizenship rights under the guise of voter list revision, and vowed to fight for their rights.In a post on X on the occasion of...

New Delhi, March 12 The Election Commission appointed returning officers (ROs) for all 294 assembly constituencies in West Bengal, which is heading for elections.Officials said that at the insistence of the Election Commission, the West Bengal government has now provided officers of...

Bhubaneswar, March 10 Ahead of launching the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Odisha on April 1, the Election Commission of India organized a four-day state-level training program for election officials on Tuesday.The SIR is a comprehensive voter list revision designed to...

Kolkata, March 10 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday called off her protest against the "flawed SIR" on its fifth day, saying the demonstration would be temporarily suspended after the Supreme Court ordered the establishment of an appellate mechanism regarding voter list...

Kolkata, March 10 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called off her protest against the "flawed SIR" on the fifth day, stating that the demonstration was being temporarily suspended following the Supreme Court's order to establish an appellate mechanism regarding the revision of the...

Kolkata, March 10 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ended her protest against the "flawed SIR" on Tuesday, after five days, stating that the protest was being temporarily suspended following the Supreme Court's order to set up an appellate mechanism regarding the revision of the voter...

Bhopal, March 9 Veteran Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh met Madhya Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Shrivastava on Monday and submitted a memorandum, alleging that thousands of fake names had been added to the voter list in the Narela Assembly constituency in...

Haridwar, March 7 A meeting of the Uttarakhand unit of the BJP took place on Saturday in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, where discussions were held on expanding the organization in view of the next year's assembly elections, BJP leaders said.BJP leaders said that it was decided...

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...

Kolkata, March 3 CPI(M) West Bengal state secretary Mohammed Salim said that the Left parties will organize a march to the office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Wednesday, demanding the publication of an accurate voter list before the upcoming assembly elections.Citing...

New Delhi, February 28 The Delhi Congress said on Saturday that it has intensified its organizational preparations ahead of the upcoming special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, having appointed booth-level agents in 10,138 booths across Delhi, an official statement said.Addressing...

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...

Bengaluru, February 17 – In view of the upcoming elections to the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) and local bodies in Karnataka, a delegation of Congress leaders, led by Deputy Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar, met the State Election Commissioner G.S. Sangheshee on Tuesday and submitted a...

Guwahati, February 16 – A team from the Election Commission of India (ECI), led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, arrived in Assam on Monday to review the state's preparedness for the upcoming 2026 Assembly elections.CEC Kumar is accompanied by Election Commissioners S.S...

New Delhi, February 16 Using its powers under electoral law, the Election Commission has suspended seven officials, deployed as Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) in West Bengal, with immediate effect for serious misconduct, dereliction of duty, and misuse of statutory powers in...