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Kolkata, April 2 Police on Thursday registered an FIR against several people, including two TMC councillors, for allegedly gathering unlawfully and defying police instructions near the state election office here, a senior officer said."An FIR has been lodged against multiple people for...

Mumbai, April 2 A delegation from the Maharashtra Congress met Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) S Chockalingam on Thursday and demanded that the upcoming Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state be carried out in a fair and transparent manner.The State Congress president...

Mumbai, April 2 The Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) on Thursday said that since no elections are scheduled in the state for the next few years, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) should have a timeline of 1.5 to 2 years to ensure accuracy.A delegation led by MPCC president...

New Delhi, April 2 The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a prospective Congress candidate to approach the newly constituted appellate tribunal in Kolkata against the deletion of his name from the electoral roll following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.A bench comprising Chief...

Doda, April 1: A training program for Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) and Panchayat Election Booth Officers (PEBOs) was held at the Doda Town Hall to ensure a smooth revision of the Panchayat electoral rolls, effective April 1, 2026.Officials, including Ashraf Parvez and Din...

According to directives from the Supreme Court, appellate tribunals are scheduled to begin proceedings today to hear cases of voters whose names were excluded from the list under consideration as part of the SIR (Summary Revision of Electoral Rolls). All applications, documents, and information...

New Delhi, April 1 Nineteen appellate tribunals, headed by former chief justices and high court judges, will decide on the pleas of those excluded from the voter list during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in poll-bound West Bengal, the Supreme Court said on...

Kolkata, April 1 – Amid ongoing tension and demonstrations outside the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) in central Kolkata, West Bengal, which began on Tuesday afternoon and continued on Wednesday, the Kolkata Police have expanded the area around the office where prohibitory orders...

Kolkata, Apr 1 Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that newly appointed officials by the Election Commission were tasked with rejecting nominations of her party candidates and urged them to be cautious while filing their nominations.Addressing a poll rally at Nanoor...

New Delhi, April 1 – The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed satisfaction with the progress made in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, which is heading towards elections, noting that a significant number of objections have already been adjudicated...

Kolkata, April 1 – The Trinamool Congress and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee are more concerned about "illegal Muslim infiltrators" rather than "Bengalis and Hindu Bengalis," the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claimed on Wednesday.The BJP also criticised the Trinamool Congress for...

Kolkata, April 1 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) issued a strong warning on Wednesday, stating that it would not tolerate any form of hooliganism in front of the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, under any circumstances.Specifically, the ECI has officially and...

New Delhi, March 31 Political activists raised concerns about the integrity of the electoral process in the country on Tuesday, questioning the reported surge in voter turnout a day after the polls and the number of voters deleted from electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR)...

Kolkata, March 31 In response to the TMC's allegations of electoral roll manipulation through applications under Form 6 in the run-up to the Assembly polls, West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal clarified on Tuesday that his office has no software to add or delete names of any...

Kolkata, March 31 – The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, on Tuesday dismissed allegations raised by the Trinamool Congress and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that voters from other states were being included in the state's electoral roll through mass submission...

Kolkata, March 31 In a strongly-worded letter to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP on Tuesday of attempting to illegally include voters from outside West Bengal on the state's electoral rolls through bulk applications using Form 6.Banerjee...

Kolkata, March 31 A group of booth-level officers (BLOs), perceived to be backed by the ruling Trinamool Congress, protested outside the Chief Electoral Officer's (CEO) office here on Tuesday over alleged manipulation of the voter list, and clashed with the police and BJP workers.During the...

Kolkata, March 31 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the BJP was trying to include illegal voters from NDA-ruled Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh in the state's electoral rolls to influence the election outcome in favor of the saffron party...

Kolkata, March 31 Tension gripped the area outside the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) office here on Tuesday after a confrontation broke out between Trinamool Congress-backed booth-level officers (BLOs) and the police over allegations of manipulation of the voter list.Leader of the Opposition...

Kolkata, March 31 Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee wrote to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Tuesday, alleging a conspiracy to infiltrate the West Bengal voter list with outsiders, purportedly involving the BJP and the Election Commission.Sharing a copy of the letter...