Overview
- India’s election commission granted the TMC an 11 a.m. November 28 appointment at Nirvachan Sadan to hear grievances over the Special Intensive Revision following letters from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
- West Bengal’s CEO reported 10.33 lakh enumeration forms uncollected as of November 24 and said unreturned, signed forms will lead to deletions in the draft roll, with submissions due December 4 and the draft due December 9.
- The commission and state officials project over 10 lakh deletions in West Bengal, largely covering dead, duplicate, migrated or untraceable electors, with missing names to be listed in categories for public appeals after the draft is published.
- Protesting BLOs gathered outside the Kolkata CEO office as BJP workers also arrived late at night; the CEO praised field staff, questioned whether most protesters were BLOs, kept the deadline unchanged, and acknowledged reports of two suicides and one other ‘unnatural’ BLO death.
- Operational and legal flashpoints widened beyond Bengal, with FIRs against over 60 BLOs and seven supervisors in Noida drawing a teachers’ plea for withdrawal, Datia removing politically linked BLO assistants as a ‘mistake,’ and Kerala addressing one BLO’s stress case while dismissing another over misconduct.