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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has leveled serious accusations against the Election Commission. She claims the EC, in league with the BJP, is deliberately removing 1.5 crore voters from Bengal's electoral roll KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused Election Commission, which she said is being led by "Vanish Kumar babus", of conniving with "BJP khokababus" to delete the names of 1.5...

Kolkata: After a 52-year-old man, Bhaskar Mukherjee, hanged himself to death at Kalyanpur in Ausgram on Wednesday, police said the man's family alleged that Mukherjee had taken his own life distressed over SIR (Special Intensive Revision) related issues, reports Mohammad Asif.East Burdwan SP Sayak Das said the family members verbally informed police that Mukherjee was distressed over SIR-related...

Bengal's draft electoral roll will feature 7,08,16,621 names, excluding over 58 lakh absent, shifted, duplicate, and dead voters KOLKATA: The draft electoral roll for Bengal, which will be published on Tuesday, will contain 7,08,16,621 names, among the 7,66,37,519 who were issued enumeration forms as part of the special intensive revision of voters’ records, Election Commission officials said.The...

CHENNAI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has informed the Madras high court that undertrials, preventive detainees, and inmates serving a short period of imprisonment could submit the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) forms through their immediate relatives or enrol afresh to feature in the revised electoral roll.The reply was in connection with a petition filed by a Madurai-based individual...

Kolkata: Even after marking untraceable voters as absentees, BLOs can upload their forms if they turn up before Thursday. However, if any untraceable voter misses the Dec 11 deadline and contacts the BLO later, the latter will not be able to roll back the forms digitised with absentee marking.Following the instruction received on WhatsApp, the BLO will have to write a letter to the electoral...