West Bengal's Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, hit the streets of Kolkata on Tuesday, 4th November, leading a massive protest rally. She and her party,...
The Election Commission's SIR 2.0 has begun in 12 states, verifying 51 crore voters. The "clean-up" aims to remove ineligible voters before 2026 polls. Booth Level Officers will visit every home until Dec 4 to collect mandatory enumeration forms.
The arrests were made by the BSF in the Basirhat border area, which has been on high alert since the announcement of the SIR of electoral rolls in West Bengal.
Opposing the SIR, Mamata Banerjee said that riots and other untoward consequences will follow if the electoral roll revision is carried out in the TMC-ruled state.
While the state government justified the transfers as a routine exercise, the BJP said that it would be keeping a close watch on the newly-appointed officials.
While an SIR in Bihar and West Bengal gave heartburn to leftists and the extended anti-BJP ecosystem, the same lot is now rattled over the ECI’s decision not to conduct an SIR in Assam.
The BJP leader added that these CAA camps will mostly be set in Bengal-Bangladesh border areas where the demographic composition has already changed. “We are seeing the demography in several districts changing, mainly in border areas; thus, there will be more camps there,” Bhattacharya said.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) launched a crucial two-day Conference of Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) today at the India International Institute for Democracy...