voter rolls

Tentulia (WB), April 10 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday claimed that the BJP brought people from outside for the Assam elections as it was not confident of victory with the votes of the northeastern state's residents.Addressing an election rally at Tentulia in North 24...

New Delhi, April 10 – The final voter rolls for Uttar Pradesh were announced on Friday, following the 2026 Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, which fixed the total number of voters at 133,984,792 (approximately 13.39 crore).The final voter list for Uttar Pradesh, announced by the...

Kolkata, April 9 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a "factory of outsiders" which has no place in the poll-bound state.Addressing an election rally in Panihati of North 24 Parganas district, Chief Minister Banerjee criticized...

Kolkata, April 7 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the names of people belonging to the Matua and minority communities were deleted from the post-SIR voter rolls in the state.Addressing a rally at Chakdaha in Nadia district, Banerjee said that the TMC will...

Kolkata, April 7 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged on Tuesday that the names of people belonging to specific communities were removed from the voter rolls in the state after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.Addressing a rally in Chakdaha, Nadia district, Banerjee...

New Delhi, April 6 The Supreme Court on Monday said that around 60 lakh claims and objections of those removed from voter lists in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound West Bengal will be decided during the day, observing that central forces will remain...

Washington, April 1 – US President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at tightening election procedures, focusing on voter rolls and mail-in ballots, which he said would help “secure elections in the future.”Announcing the order at the White House, Trump described it as addressing...

Kolkata, March 24 – The deadline for publishing the first supplementary list for judicial adjudication of voters classified under the "logical discrepancy" category passed on Monday midnight, with the list yet to be made public.Earlier in the evening, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West...

Washington, March 17 – The Trump administration has begun reviewing voter rolls in several states, a senior official said, warning that some jurisdictions are “resisting” compliance with federal election laws.Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon stated on Monday (local time) that the US...

Kolkata, March 15 With the election season in West Bengal officially underway, several issues are expected to dominate the political campaigns in the coming weeks.SIR/Citizenship concerns: The publication of post-SIR electoral rolls has triggered a significant pre-election development in the...

New Delhi, March 15 The Election Commission will announce the dates for the assembly elections on Sunday evening.Elections are scheduled for West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam, and Puducherry.The election authority has called a press conference at 4 pm to announce the schedule.The...

New Delhi, March 13 – Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar highlighted the importance of innovation in strengthening the democratic and electoral process, an official said on Friday.Addressing trainee officers of the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and the Royal Bhutan Service (RBS) at the...

Kolkata, March 9 – Amit Malviya, the chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s IT Cell and the party's national observer for West Bengal, on Monday, raised concerns about a potential violation of Election Commission guidelines by a West Bengal government official.In a post on X, Malviya...

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...

Kolkata, February 28 In a scathing attack on the Election Commission after the publication of post-SIR electoral rolls in West Bengal removing over 63 lakh names on Saturday, the ruling Trinamool Congress accused the poll panel of "invisible rigging" in collusion with the BJP.The saffron camp...

Kolkata, Feb 28 – Around 63.66 lakh names, nearly 8.3 per cent of the electorate, have been deleted in West Bengal since the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) began in November last year, bringing down the total number of voters in the state to over 7.04 crore ahead of the assembly elections due...

Kolkata, February 28 Voters in West Bengal were left in the dark for most of the day, unable to access information about their voter status on the Election Commission's website and mobile application, following the release of the post-poll voter rolls on Saturday. This was due to a technical...

Kolkata, February 28 Ahead of the 2026 state assembly elections in West Bengal, the publication of the post-SIR electoral rolls on Saturday triggered fresh political ripples in Bhabanipur, a constituency represented by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, with over 47,000 names struck off and more...

New Delhi, February 24 The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court to deploy civil judges and also to requisition judicial officers from neighboring Jharkhand and Odisha to deal with the 80 lakh claims and objections in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision...