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West Bengal Voter Roll Drive Tops 1.73 Crore Forms in Three Days as ECI Adds Online Option

The rollout features a new online submission option, reflecting a push to include voters who miss in-person visits.

Overview

  • An insider at the Chief Electoral Officer’s office said 1.73 crore enumeration forms were recorded as distributed by 4 pm Thursday across the first three days of the Special Intensive Revision.
  • The Election Commission launched an online facility on the CEO portal that lets residents download, fill and upload enumeration forms after a brief technical delay earlier in the week.
  • Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee denied reports that she personally received enumeration forms, calling them misinformation in a Facebook post.
  • Officials have deployed 80,681 booth-level officers across 294 assembly constituencies, prepared roughly 7.66 crore forms, and require BLOs to retain one countersigned copy and return a stamped acknowledgement to voters.
  • The CEO’s office has received 1,11,469 Booth-Level Agent applications so far, including BJP 38,021, Trinamool Congress 35,527, CPI(M) 29,360 and Congress 7,197.