Overview
- Assam published integrated draft rolls after a statewide verification drive, listing 10.56 lakh deletions attributed to deaths, shifting and duplicate entries, with over 93,000 D‑voters carried without voting rights.
- Assam’s claims and objections period runs to January 22, with final rolls due February 10, and officials say flagged duplicate-like entries will be corrected per due process.
- West Bengal began hearings at 3,234 centres for roughly 32 lakh ‘unmapped’ voters, using micro‑observers as elderly and disabled electors reported difficulties appearing in person.
- The Election Commission acknowledged a PDF‑to‑CSV/BLO app linkage glitch in West Bengal and directed that affected voters need not be called, saying the unmapped count will fall after verification.
- Tensions rose as TMC demanded the list of 1.36 crore voters flagged for ‘logical discrepancies’ and planned to raise the issue with the CEC on December 31, while Uttar Pradesh reported about 2.89 crore deletions and will take reapplications and objections from January 1 to 31.