Overview
- The Election Commission released Assam’s integrated draft roll showing about 10.56 lakh proposed deletions and 2.51 crore registered voters, excluding 93,021 D-voters who remain listed without voting rights.
- Assam’s removals include roughly 4.79 lakh deceased, 5.23 lakh who shifted residence, and 53,619 duplicate or demographically similar entries after house-to-house checks across about 61 lakh households.
- West Bengal began first-phase SIR hearings for roughly 32 lakh unmapped voters at 3,234 centres under about 4,500 micro-observers, with seniors aged 85 and above eligible for home verification and Aadhaar not accepted as a standalone document.
- The poll panel rejected TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar’s claim that her relatives were deleted from the draft rolls, saying their names appear in the forms and hearings address discrepancies noted during enumeration.
- TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee demanded the publication of 1.36 crore voters flagged for logical discrepancies and plans to meet the Chief Election Commissioner on December 31, as the Centre provided Y-plus CISF security to Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal.