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Election Commission Adds Special Roll Observers in Bengal as Mamata Escalates SIR Critique

The new appointees will conduct final checks on disputed voter documents, overseeing field monitors as the revision moves toward a February 14 roll publication.

Representational Image | Booth Level Officers (BLO) and assistant workers check and collect the enumeration forms as residents queue up to submit the forms for the special intensive revision (SIR) | (ANI Photo)
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Overview

  • Four additional special roll observers were appointed to West Bengal to verify documents of voters flagged with “logical discrepancies” and to supervise micro-observers during hearings.
  • The Commission has moved to a three-stage identity check for flagged cases, adding a final review by the new observers after scrutiny by Electoral Registration Officers and District Magistrates.
  • ECI sources say about 58 lakh names have been deleted so far in the revision, including roughly 24 lakh identified as deceased, with the claims-and-objections phase ongoing.
  • Mamata Banerjee sent further letters to the CEC, most recently alleging AI-driven digitisation errors from 2002 roll data are producing mismatches and wrongful flags, and citing notices to eminent citizens; the ECI later exempted overseas citizens from hearings.
  • An Assistant Electoral Registration Officer resigned citing data-conversion flaws behind “logical discrepancies,” while Opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari wrote to the CEC dismissing the Chief Minister’s allegations and urging the Commission to complete the process.