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ECI to Meet TMC on Nov. 28 as Bengal Voter Roll Revision Stokes Protests and Political Heat

The poll body scheduled November 28 talks to address West Bengal complaints over the ongoing voter roll revision.

Overview

  • The Election Commission granted the Trinamool Congress a November 28, 11 am appointment at Nirvachan Sadan to present its objections to the Special Intensive Revision.
  • West Bengal’s CEO reiterated a non‑extendable December 4 deadline for submitting enumeration forms and said a draft roll is due December 9, cautioning that non‑submission may lead to deletion.
  • An ECI estimate projects over 10 lakh deletions from Bengal’s rolls, with deceased voters forming the largest category at about 6.5 lakh, based on data uploaded so far.
  • Protesting BLOs in Kolkata cited workload and connectivity issues; late‑night tensions rose when BJP workers reached the site, police kept the groups apart, and the CEO said most protesters were not BLOs and that reported deaths are under review.
  • Mamata Banerjee led an anti‑SIR rally and called the EC biased, while BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari urged CAPF deployment and action against ‘biased’ police; in Madhya Pradesh’s Datia, the administration moved to remove BJP‑linked names wrongly listed as BLO assistants.