Overview
- Assam released integrated draft rolls showing 10.56 lakh names removed after house-to-house checks, excluding 93,021 D‑voters whose particulars remain listed without voting rights.
- Hearings in West Bengal began at 3,234 centres for roughly 32 lakh ‘unmapped’ voters in the first phase, with about 4,500 micro‑observers overseeing proceedings.
- Election officials in Assam attributed deletions to deaths, address shifts and duplicate entries; objections are open until January 22 and the final roll is due on February 10.
- The Election Commission said TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar’s claim about her family’s names being deleted was misleading, stating the names exist and that hearings address discrepancies.
- TMC leaders escalated their challenge to the SIR in Bengal, demanding publication of the 1.36 crore entries flagged for ‘logical discrepancies’ and planning to raise the matter with the CEC on December 31.