Overview
- The Election Commission extended the Special Intensive Revision window for claims and objections to January 19 in Rajasthan, West Bengal, Goa, Puducherry and Lakshadweep, directing wide publicity through gazette notices, BLOs and online portals.
- West Bengal saw continued unrest over hearings with road and rail blockades, vandalism reported at BDO offices, resignations by some BLOs in Cooch Behar, and a Kolkata BLO found dead, intensifying concerns about workload and procedure.
- In Rajasthan, a Jaipur BLO alleged pressure to delete hundreds of mostly Muslim voters in Hawa Mahal, while Congress cited bulk Form-7 filings and flagged a Ramgarh case where 1,383 offline objections were later reflected as 372 online, demanding FIRs.
- State and party leaders pressed competing narratives, with the BJP’s Hawa Mahal MLA defending the SIR as fair and targeted at duplicates, and TMC leaders in Bengal challenging “logical discrepancy” flags and documentation demands as arbitrary.
- Officials said verification and hearings will continue under ERO/AERO oversight with state-specific schedules intact, keeping publication of final electoral rolls on track for February.