Election Commission of India

Sources told The New Indian Express that a complicance report has been sent to the ECI by the Chief Secretary Manoj Pant.

In the past 3 months, new voter registration through Form-6 has increased 9 times in Muslim-dominated Malda and Murshidabad, Nadia, Uttar Dinajpur, Cooch Behar, North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas.

Yadav's allegations of targeted removal of voters from the voter list by the Election Commission at the behest of the BJP fell flat.

The controversy erupted after Sanjay Kumar posted inflated voter roll figures, later deleted with an apology citing “misread rows”. Verified Election Commission data exposed the falsehood, prompting ICSSR to issue a show cause notice.

The practice of assigning house number 0 started in 2013, when the Election Commission decided to provide voter ID cards to homeless people.

Official Form 20 records exposed Sanjay Kumar’s viral CSDS data as false. Pawan Khera deleted his post without apology, while BJP accused CSDS of playing a dangerous, foreign-funded game of narrative-building against the Election Commission.

The Election Commission of India dismissed allegations of voter fraud raised by Opposition leaders, saying the correct time to raise concerns about electoral rolls is during the “claims and objections” period.

The development comes after the Chief Secretary wrote to the Commission on Monday (11the August), terming the suspension and FIR order “disproportionately harsh” and having a “demoralising impact” on Bengal’s officers’ community.

The Election Commission of India on Wednesday fact checked "vote theft" claims made by Rahul Gandhi, and asserted that no one can force to remove the name of a voter from final electoral rolls

The Court did not accept the petitioners' claim that the SIR in Bihar would result in disenfranchisement of lakhs of voters, as they are poor and do not have the necessary documents.