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January 7, 2026, 10:01 PM - 3 min read
Nearly 6.5 crore voters were removed from draft electoral rolls across nine states and three Union Territories after Phase 2 of the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision, aimed at deleting duplicate, shifted and deceased entries.
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January 1, 2026, 09:35 PM - 5 min read
A Siliguri monk was summoned by the Election Commission after listing spiritual leaders Sri Ramakrishna Dev and Sarada Devi as his parents on his voter registration. While the monk submitted all identity documents, the episode has sparked debate over faith, bureaucracy, and political overtones in Bengal.
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December 30, 2025, 05:07 PM - 3 min read
Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, whose party had formally raised concerns about the physical strain on elderly voters, welcomed the change but urged the Commission to extend the same courtesy to those over 60 who suffer from serious medical conditions.
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December 27, 2025, 09:31 PM - 4 min read
Over 10.56 lakh voter names have been deleted from Assam’s electoral rolls after a Special Revision, with the Election Commission releasing draft rolls ahead of Assembly polls due in less than six months.
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December 12, 2025, 08:30 PM - 2 min read
The draft voter list will be released on December 16. Objections and claims regarding the list can be filed till January 15. EROs will conduct inquiries, resolve disputes, issue notices, and hold hearings where necessary from December 16 to February 7.
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December 11, 2025, 07:45 PM - 6 min read
The leader of Opposition has problems with the Government of India enacting a special law that provides immunity to the election commissioners for various acts of omission and commission while in office.
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December 7, 2025, 03:27 PM - 3 min read
Sources within the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, indicated that the ECI is emphasising this minute mapping following instances where the names of the parents of some voters in the current list differed from those in the 2002 list.
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December 4, 2025, 03:13 PM - 2 min read
"The Election Commission is working on it, and the government stands with the victims and will provide them full support. If there is any specific complaint (of harassment), it will be investigated, and strict action will also be taken."
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December 1, 2025, 02:12 PM - 3 min read
Blaming the Election Commission (EC) for what he called an "unplanned and glitch-ridden" revision process, the TMC MP said Booth Level Officers (BLOs) were neither trained nor equipped to handle the workload.
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November 29, 2025, 09:55 PM - 3 min read
Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday accused the West Bengal administration of manipulating electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision, alleging direct intervention by senior officials to retain ineligible names. He welcomed the EC’s decision to appoint observers but said the process required swifter action.
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November 27, 2025, 02:43 PM - 3 min read
“Twelve states, including West Bengal, are working on SIR together. In this regard, Bengal is much ahead of many other states,” the official said.
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November 26, 2025, 07:48 PM - 3 min read
On the first day of the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha’s winter session, Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania approved an adjournment motion brought by BJP MLAs Randhir Sharma, Surinder Shouri and Rakesh Jamwal. They asked for the Question Hour to be suspended so the House could urgently discuss the alleged delay in elections of the panchayat and urban local bodies.
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