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ECI approves use of tea garden employment records for voter verification during SIR in North Bengal

He pointed out that many workers in tea and cinchona gardens do not possess standard identity documents and often rely only on employment records issued by plantation authorities. 

West Bengal: Election Commission issues notice to Amartya Sen over logical discrepancy in age found during SIR exercise

Clarifying the matter, a senior official from the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer’s office said that only one notice had been issued to Sen.

Uttar Pradesh SIR: Nearly 3 crore voters deleted from draft voter rolls, 91% of voters mapped so far

Around 18.70% votes have been deleted from the rolls due to deaths, permanent migration or multiple registrations.

Draft electoral roll for Kerala after SIR: 24 lakh names removed, dead, migrated, and untraceable people dropped

The removed 24,08,503 voters those marked in the Absent, Shifted, Dead (ASD) list. This list has been published alongside the draft electoral roll. In the ASD list, 6,45,548 are listed as ‘untraceable/absent’

Draft electoral rolls after SIR: 97.3 lakh voter names deleted in Tamil Nadu, 73.7 lakh in Gujarat, death and migration primary cause

Under the Phae-2 of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, the draft electoral rolls of Tamil Nadu and Gujarat states were published yesterday. In...

Cluster of shanties gutted in massive fire in Kolkata, BJP accuses TMC of orchestrating it to re-include Bangladeshis in voter list after SIR

The fire reportedly started around 7.30 pm in one of the shanties and quickly spread to nearby structures.

West Bengal: Over 58 lakh names removed in SIR draft; 24 lakh voters dead, 19 lakh relocated and 12 lakh missing

The West Bengal assembly elections are set for early next year after the SIR program is completed in the state.

Mamata Banerjee threatens unrest over removal of names in SIR in West Bengal, urges women to attack ECI officials with kitchen tools

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee vows to stage a dharna if even one eligible voter’s name is removed during the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision. She calls on women to stand strong with kitchen tools and accuses the BJP of political manipulation.

Supreme Court objects to Prashant Bhushan calling the Election Commission a “despot” during hearing of petitions challenging SIR

Bhushan claimed that the exercise was being conducted in a "hurry" which has led to the death of several Booth Level Officers (BLOs).

‘SIR cannot be stopped unless it shown that the ECI has no power to do it,’ says the Supreme Court, rejects claim that Commission...

The Court explained that if the Election Commission finds that a large number of voters in a state are dead, it cannot pick and choose constituencies in the state to conduct the SIR.

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