Overview
- West Bengal’s CEO office has started issuing notices for hearings from December 27 to around 32 lakh voters classified as unmapped, with micro-observer training set for December 24 and an Election Commission team slated to review progress.
- Kerala’s government wrote to the Election Commission warning that about 25 lakh eligible voters may have been wrongly excluded, seeking an extension and booth-wise lists after reporting distribution gaps and high counts of forms marked not collected.
- In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP convened lawmakers and cadres to prioritize the closing days of enumeration through December 26, as Yogi Adityanath cited concern over roughly three crore missing names and opposition leaders raised demographic targeting objections.
- In Tamil Nadu, draft rolls show about 9.7 million potential deletions, prompting M.K. Stalin to order district-level verification and a Supreme Court challenge, while the AIADMK and state BJP argued the process targets duplicate and ineligible entries.
- Madhya Pradesh officials said the draft electoral roll due Tuesday could reflect around 41.8 lakh names flagged for deletion, including voters marked dead, shifted, absent or duplicate, pending the claims-and-objections process.