Overview
- Abhishek Banerjee led a 10-member delegation in a two-and-a-half-hour meeting, alleging “vote theft” via software-driven roll checks rather than EVMs.
- The party said 1.36 crore entries were flagged for hearings under a new “logical discrepancies” label and demanded the underlying lists and criteria.
- TMC questioned roughly 58 lakh deletions from the draft roll and sought the data basis for any classification of Rohingya or Bangladeshi nationals.
- Election Commission officials offered procedural explanations, cited possible app-related issues, said they would consider expanded home hearings for seniors, and the CEC was said to be unaware of any ‘Data Mission’ appointment flagged by TMC.
- The Commission warned TMC to prevent threats to polling staff, the party pressed for virtual hearings for migrants, and BJP leaders dismissed TMC’s claims as manufactured controversy.