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TMC’s national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee - file image.

Abhishek plans mega virtual meet with 10,000 BLAs

December 24, 2025, 05:52 PM - 3 min read

The meeting, scheduled for Friday after the Christmas holidays, follows clear instructions from Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee to ensure that no eligible voter in the state is excluded from the electoral roll during the SIR process.

The next phase, meanwhile, will be for voters with logical discrepancies, for which guidelines have been sought from the Election Commission, another official said on Monday

West Bengal SIR: Hearings for 32 lakh unmapped voters to begin

December 23, 2025, 09:22 AM - 2 min read

The first phase of hearings is for voters who could not link their names with those of their family members in the 2002 electoral rolls

EC allows home hearings for voters aged 85+

December 18, 2025, 06:50 PM - 4 min read

“Preliminary observations suggest deliberate negligence in these cases. Affected voters will still be required to submit Form 6 due to procedural requirements,” said the official.

In a message to BLOs, Agarwal said they must exercise “utmost care” while uploading data, warning them of legal action if any “intentional mistake” is detected

Bengal SIR: BLOs asked to delete dead or absent voters by Dec 11

December 5, 2025, 09:54 AM - 2 min read

West Bengal’s Chief Electoral Officer, Manoj Agarwal, asked booth-level officers (BLOs) to exercise “utmost care” while engaging in revision of enumeration forms and uploading data

EC directs Assam BLOs to verify non-human, no-image voter entries

November 23, 2025, 02:54 PM - 3 min read

Assam BLOs to verify missing and non-human photos in electoral rolls, replacing flawed entries ahead of February 2026 final voter list under special revision.

BLOs not pressured, focus on timely completion of SIR: Kerala CEO

November 22, 2025, 02:58 PM - 2 min read

Highlighting specific measures taken in border areas close to Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, where Kannada and Tamil are predominantly spoken, Kelkar said that personnel proficient in these languages are being deployed alongside BLOs to facilitate the smooth filling of forms.

The incident occurred two days after state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner, highlighting multiple suicides of BLOs and common citizens across Bengal

Another Bengal BLO commits suicide; sparks outrage on rushed SIR

November 22, 2025, 12:51 PM - 4 min read

Rinku Tarafdar (53), a para-teacher who was recently assigned the responsibility of BLO, died by hanging in her home in Shasthitala, Krishnanagar, Nadia, on Saturday morning

Shantimuni Ekka, a BLO from Rangmati Gram Panchayat, was found hanging near her Malbazar home.

BLO found dead in Jalpaiguri, Mamata blames SIR stress

November 19, 2025, 09:23 PM - 3 min read

BLO Shantimuni Ekka was found dead in Jalpaiguri; her family cited SIR workload, language barriers, and stress. Mamata Banerjee blamed the Election Commission for overburdening field workers.

BLOs boycott SIR work in Kerala after officer’s suicide

November 17, 2025, 12:55 PM - 3 min read

Various trade unions of state government employees, including the Action Council of State Government Employees and Teachers and the Joint Committee of Teacher Service Organisations, held protests at district collectorates.

Rajasthan to offer home voting facility for elderly and differently-abled in Lok Sabha elections

March 20, 2024, 04:35 PM - 2 min read

This innovative approach was successfully piloted during the 2023 Assembly elections in Rajasthan, where nearly 99 percent of the 61,022 eligible registered voters availed the home voting facility. Now, the initiative is being extended for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.