Overview
- Assam published its integrated draft roll after a statewide Special Revision, proposing 10.56 lakh deletions tied to deaths, shifts of residence and duplicate-like entries.
- The Assam draft lists 2.51 crore electors after excluding about 93,000 D-voters, with claims and objections open until January 22 and final rolls due on February 10.
- West Bengal’s SIR hearings entered day two for roughly 32 lakh ‘unmapped’ cases, with large queues reported and some elderly and disabled voters struggling to attend.
- The Election Commission told districts that voters marked unmapped due to data-conversion glitches from the 2002 roll will not be called for hearings until verification of hard copies.
- TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee demanded the list of 1.36 crore voters flagged for ‘logical discrepancies’ and said he will meet the Chief Election Commissioner on December 31, as Uttar Pradesh reported about 2.89 crore deletions with a contest window from January 1 to 31.