Overview
- Primary hearings opened across West Bengal with about 32 lakh voters summoned, including relatives of TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar.
- The Election Commission rejected Dastidar’s charge that her family members were deleted, stating their names appear in enumeration forms and that hearings address discrepancies.
- TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee demanded a published list of roughly 1.36 crore voters flagged for ‘logical discrepancy’ and said he will raise the issue with the Chief Election Commissioner on December 31.
- Assam’s integrated draft rolls recorded 10,56,291 deletions for death, shifting or duplicate entries, listed 2.51 crore voters, and carried forward details of 93,021 D‑voters; claims and objections are open until January 22 with final rolls due February 10.
- Kerala set a minimum one‑week notice for hearings and ordered voter help desks at village offices to assist omitted or unmapped electors during the SIR process.