Overview
- In a letter on January 5, the BJP leader urged the Chief Election Commissioner to continue the special intensive revision "undaunted," arguing it has public support and adequate training for BLOs and EROs.
- Adhikari defended using WhatsApp for clarifications as supplementary to formal circulars and said excluding booth-level agents from some hearings was to prevent disruptions.
- Mamata Banerjee wrote on January 3 that the process is arbitrary and unconstitutional, warning of disenfranchisement and alleging unstable IT systems, backend deletions, and the sidelining of statutory EROs.
- The Election Commission has defended the revision as a lawful clean-up of voter rolls and asked parties to refrain from intimidating electoral staff.
- TMC leaders cite 1.36 crore logical discrepancies and about 58.2 lakh provisional deletions in draft rolls, and Abhishek Banerjee accused the CEC of evasiveness after a recent meeting.