Overview
- Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s Special Intensive Revision covers 12 states and UTs with house‑to‑house verification from Nov. 4 to Dec. 4 and draft rolls due Dec. 9.
- An all‑party meeting led by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin resolved to challenge the SIR in the Supreme Court, calling the exercise anti‑democratic and poorly timed during the monsoon.
- The Trinamool Congress will hold a Kolkata rally on Nov. 4 led by Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee, with party help desks and war rooms set up to assist voters during the month‑long verification.
- Both TMC and BJP lodged complaints accusing each other’s leaders of threatening Booth Level Officers, including allegations against Suvendu Adhikari and TMC’s Girindranath Barman.
- The Election Commission began last‑mile training for about 80,861 BLOs in West Bengal, issued a 16‑point guideline and a mobile app, and said it will publish a separate list of unsubmitted or incomplete forms to reduce wrongful exclusions; BLOs have asked for security and some warned of a boycott without protections.