Overview
- Primary hearings under the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls opened across West Bengal on Saturday.
- Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar said her 90-year-old mother, her sister and her two sons were called after their names were excluded from the December 16 draft list.
- An estimated 32 lakh voters statewide have been summoned for the initial hearings, according to multiple reports.
- A TMC delegation lodged objections with the chief electoral officer, alleging 58 lakh removals via Form 7, curtailed ERO authority, opaque lists, tight timelines and use of a private KAP survey.
- BJP leader Rahul Sinha attributed the notices to document mismatches requiring clarification, while TMC cited earlier summonses to relatives of MLA Nabin Chandra Bag as part of a wider pattern.