Overview

• The Election Commission’s cap of 1,200 voters per station will lift West Bengal’s booths from about 80,681 to roughly 94,000, with a draft showing 13,816 additions along with limited abolitions, reorganisations and 703 proposed shifts.
• Trinamool Congress backed adding booths but rejected a Special Intensive Revision of rolls and insisted any additional booths be housed within the same premises to avoid sending voters farther away.
• BJP leaders alleged partisan conduct by the CEO’s office and district election officials, claimed over 40% of booth-level officers are temporary hires, and sought showcause notices over minutes that reportedly omitted objections.
• Congress and the CPI(M)-led Left Front also challenged district reports as inaccurate, with some alleging forged signatures that the CEO’s office denied.
• CEO Manoj Agarwal said officials will hold district-level consultations after receiving party inputs before finalising the map, while the no-more-than-1,200-voters-per-booth limit stands even as counts could be adjusted later.