All posts tagged: electoral rolls

Fate of 8 lakh voters to be revealed| India News

Fate of 8 lakh voters to be revealed| India News

A final supplementary list of all remaining voters under review as part of the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal will be published tonight, the Election Commission has told the Supreme Court. The number of such voters remaining under adjudication is around 8 lakh. An electoral officer demonstrates the functioning of voting machines during a training programme for officials ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections scheduled for April 23. (PTI) Those whose names do not appear in the supplementary list will now have to approach tribunals for redressal. However, uncertainty remains over when the tribunals will begin functioning. After the EC published its eighth supplementary list on April 3, it said has disposed of around 52 lakh cases under adjudication. Work for the remaining nearly 8 lakh applicants was in progress and was expected to be completed within the next four days, an EC official had said, essentially meaning April 7. Voting day nears Over 60 lakh names were under scrutiny after the final draft rolls were published. The adjudication is …

PM Modi targets TMC over ‘maha jungle raj’, Mamata calls for ‘revenge’ over SIR deletions| India News

PM Modi targets TMC over ‘maha jungle raj’, Mamata calls for ‘revenge’ over SIR deletions| India News

The political battle in West Bengal escalated on Sunday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching a sharp attack on the ruling Trinamool Congress over law and order, while Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged voters to “take revenge” over alleged deletions from electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. Political tensions rose in West Bengal as PM Modi criticized the TMC for lawlessness, while CM Banerjee urged voters to retaliate against alleged electoral roll deletions. (ANI/PTI) West Bengal is set to vote in two phases on April 23 and 29, with counting scheduled for May 4. Modi flags Malda incident, calls it ‘maha jungleraj’ Addressing an election rally in Cooch Behar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the recent picketing of judicial officers in Malda as a sign of “maha jungle raj” under the TMC government, news agency PTI reported. “When even judicial officers are not safe, how can you expect that common people will be safe under TMC rule? What happened in Malda is an example of TMC’s maha jungle raj,” Modi said, referring …

‘Mastermind’ behind hostage-taking of judges in Bengal arrested while boarding flight to escape| India News

‘Mastermind’ behind hostage-taking of judges in Bengal arrested while boarding flight to escape| India News

Advocate Mofakkarul Islam, the alleged mastermind behind the gherao of seven judicial officers in West Bengal’s Malda district, was reportedly arrested while trying to board a flight to escape. According to news agency PTI, the arrest took place at Siliguri’s Bagdogra airport, two days after seven judicial officers were held hostage for eight hours. According to news agency PTI, the arrest took place at Siliguri’s Bagdogra airport. (PTI/Representative) “He is the mastermind of the Kaliachak incident in which seven judicial officers were gheraoed inside a BDO office for several hours on Wednesday night. He was trying to board a flight to flee,” a senior officer told PTI. The police have so far arrested 33 people, including an ISF candidate, in the case. What happened? Seven judicial officers involved in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal’s Malda were confined inside the Kaliachak 2 Block Development Office at 4 pm on Wednesday and held there for hours. A large crowd behind their confinement were alleging that genuine voters’ names had been deleted from the …

Bengali migrants in New Delhi rush home amid voter list fears ahead of West Bengal polls| India News

Bengali migrants in New Delhi rush home amid voter list fears ahead of West Bengal polls| India News

Amid reports that voters who do not cast their votes in the upcoming West Bengal elections may face deletion from future electoral rolls, Bengali migrants living in New Delhi are returning to their native districts to ensure they can vote in the state elections scheduled for April 23 and 29. Election Commission officials assist voters at a help desk camp for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Electoral Rolls, in Sonagachi, Kolkata. (PTI) Several migrant workers from West Bengal reported instances of deletions or discrepancies in the electoral rolls following the revision exercise. As a result, they are travelling back home not only to cast their votes but also to verify or correct their voter registration status before the April 19 deadline. One migrant labourer said his name has not yet appeared on the voter list. Of the four brothers in his family, only one has been listed, while the other three are currently being treated as “foreigners.” He added that although people across his settlement plan to travel for voting, arranging transport has become …

What sparked CJI’s sharp reaction during West Bengal SIR hearing in Supreme Court?| India News

What sparked CJI’s sharp reaction during West Bengal SIR hearing in Supreme Court?| India News

Hearing a batch of pleas related to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal, the Supreme Court on Tuesday reacted sharply to the applications filed before it alleging pendency of claims before judicial officers given the task of SIR of electoral rolls in the state and asked “how dare” it happen. Your application is premature and it shows as if you don’t have trust, CJI told the applicants (Biplov Bhuyan/HT FILE PHOTO) Asking the state government and the Election Commission of India (ECI) to ensure logistical support is provided to judicial officers, the Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi stated the top court would not tolerate attempts to question the integrity of judicial officers. “Your application is premature and it shows as if you don’t have trust. How did you dare such applications are filed? No one should dare question the judicial officers. As a Chief Justice of India, I will not tolerate this,” law portal Bar and Bench quoted CJI Kant as saying to …

Will expose BJP-poll panel conspiracy disenfranchise Bengali voters: Mamata Banerjee| India News

Will expose BJP-poll panel conspiracy disenfranchise Bengali voters: Mamata Banerjee| India News

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that she would “expose the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – Election Commission (EC) conspiracy to disenfranchise Bengali voters”, as she launched a dharna outside Kolkata’s Esplanade metro station to protest the alleged arbitrary deletion of several million people during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stages a sit-in protest against the alleged arbitrary deletions from the post-SIR electoral rolls in the state. (PTI) “I will expose the BJP-EC conspiracy to disenfranchise Bengali voters,” she said in her speech. “I will present those voters, who have been declared dead by the EC, at this protest site.” During the dharna, Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee exhorted voters to “boycott” the BJP in the upcoming state assembly polls. “Boycott BJP. You may have reasons not to like TMC but Bengalis with the minimum sense of honour should not vote for BJP unless they don’t want something bad to happen to Bengal. I predicted earlier that BJP will not …

5 key trends that have emerged from SIR exercise | Number Theory

5 key trends that have emerged from SIR exercise | Number Theory

It has now been more than eight months since the Election Commission of India (ECI) started its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process to overhaul electoral rolls in India. The exercise started with Bihar and has now been conducted in nine states and three Union territories, accounting for 237 of India’s 543 Lok Sabha constituencies. This number excludes the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies of Assam, where the roll revision exercise is called Special Revision (SR) rather than SIR, and where the process is significantly different from that of SIR. ECI has already announced that it will begin this exercise in the remaining parts of the country from April. The exercise started with Bihar and has now been conducted in nine states and three Union territories, accounting for 237 of India’s 543 Lok Sabha constituencies. This number excludes the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies of Assam, where the roll revision exercise is called Special Revision (SR) rather than SIR, (PTI) February 28 was an important milestone in this journey as ECI released the final electoral roll for West …

Calcutta HC CJ holds ‘internal coordination meeting’ with CEO, officials on SIR

Calcutta HC CJ holds ‘internal coordination meeting’ with CEO, officials on SIR

Kolkata, Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul on Monday held an internal coordination meeting with West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer and senior administrative and police officials over the SIR work entrusted to judicial officers, officials said. Calcutta HC CJ holds ‘internal coordination meeting’ with CEO, officials on SIR The Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, and DGP were among those present at the meeting. Speaking to reporters after the nearly hour-long deliberation, CEO Manoj Agarwal described it as an “internal meeting”. He said that training of judicial officers on the online portal for the SIR of electoral rolls in the state was completed on Monday morning, and the exercise has already commenced in several places. “There were some teething problems regarding OTPs, but these have been overcome,” Agarwal said. On February 20, the Supreme Court issued an “extraordinary” direction to deploy serving and former district judges to assist the poll panel in the controversy-ridden SIR process in the state. The apex court ordered deputation of judicial officers for adjudication of claims and objections of persons placed …

Mamata Banerjee challenges voter roll revision in Supreme Court| India News

Mamata Banerjee challenges voter roll revision in Supreme Court| India News

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday appeared in person before the Supreme Court to argue her petition challenging the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the State, telling the court that “justice is crying behind closed doors” as she pressed for urgent intervention ahead of the Assembly elections. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee reaches the Supreme Court premises, in New Delhi. (PTI) Banerjee, a trained advocate, is representing herself after moving an interlocutory application seeking permission to present arguments in her own case. Her petition seeks to quash all SIR-related orders issued by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on June 24, 2025 and October 27, 2025, along with all connected directives. A three-judge Bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant, along with Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi, is hearing a batch of petitions on the SIR exercise, including those filed by Banerjee, Mostari Banu, and Trinamool Congress MPs Derek O’Brien and Dola Sen. ‘Justice is crying behind closed doors’: Mamata Banerjee Opening her submissions, Mamata Banerjee made …

Mamata Banerjee turns to poetry to protest against SIR| India News

Mamata Banerjee turns to poetry to protest against SIR| India News

New Delhi, Amid the ongoing political and legal battle against the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has adopted an unusual form of protest, authoring 26 poems on the issue. Mamata Banerjee turns to poetry to protest against SIR The poems in the book titled “SIR: 26 in 26” stand out with titles like ‘Panic’, ‘Doom’, ‘Mockery’, ‘Fight’, ‘Democracy’ and ‘Who Is To Blame’. The book was released on January 22 at the 49th International Kolkata Book Fair. In the introduction, Banerjee dedicates the book to “those who have lost their lives in this ruinous game”, alleging that a “relentless campaign of fear” has been unleashed on the people of Bengal. She writes that the poems emerge from a “spirit of resistance.” “How long do we stay silent still? Silence does not mean peace-it means lives are falling, dripping away to nothing,” reads the poem titled ‘Doom’. “We want answers. And answers will be given in people’s court,” it adds. Another poem titled ‘Morgue’ alleges that “democracy is being …