Overview
- Acting on pleas by TMC MPs Derek O’Brien and Dola Sen, the Supreme Court gave the Election Commission a week to respond and set a hearing for January 19, with requests to extend the January 15 claims-and-objections deadline.
- Election Commission officials said notices issued to public figures, including Amartya Sen, Admiral Arun Prakash and Mohammed Shami, were automatically generated by the system based on data inputs and legacy-linkage flags.
- The Electoral Registration Officer in Goa clarified that missing 2002 identifiers left Admiral Arun Prakash’s form unmapped, which triggered an automatic hearing notice that officials say has now been resolved.
- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, in her fifth letter to the CEC, alleged AI-driven digitisation errors and missing acknowledgements for submitted documents, as BLO groups protested workload and procedural pressure.
- In West Bengal’s draft roll, 58.2 lakh names were marked absent, shifted, dead or duplicate and about 7 million voters have received notices, with the final electoral rolls due for publication on February 14.