Overview
- At a Jorhat press conference, the Assam Congress chief called for an immediate rollout of machine-readable rolls for the next Assembly elections, starting with Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry.
- He sought full digitisation with centrally managed software for preparing voter lists to remove manual vulnerabilities.
- He asked the Election Commission to publicly spell out any technical or administrative barriers to adopting modern formats and to publish a strict audit trail for every post-draft change.
- He alleged the Assam government is misusing the Special Summary Revision to register out-of-state BJP workers, and urged the Commission to intervene.
- Current reports do not note any EC response, while the nationwide SIR continues in 12 states and union territories with final rolls due on February 7.