Overview
- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sent a third letter to CEC Gyanesh Kumar urging that the Special Intensive Revision be stopped unless flaws are corrected, calling the exercise arbitrary and ill-prepared.
- The letter alleges critical SIR directions are being issued via WhatsApp and texts without formal orders and claims electors were deleted through IT systems without ERO authorization.
- The Election Commission directed immediate FIRs against two EROs, two AEROs and a data-entry operator in Baruipur and Moyna for irregularities and alleged credential sharing linked to fake entries.
- The Commission sought an action-taken report from the state DGP over an attack on Special Electoral Roll Observer C. Murugan’s car on December 29, citing serious security lapses during field visits.
- EC officials said ‘logical discrepancy’ flags in the draft rolls were pared from about 1.36 crore to roughly 94.49 lakh, while the state CEO asked South 24-Parganas’ DEO to probe TMC claims of living voters marked ‘dead’.