Overview
- Door-to-door distribution of electoral enumeration forms began across the state, with officials reporting more than 1.6 million forms handed out on the first day.
- Mamata Banerjee led a large Kolkata march opposing the Special Intensive Revision as politically motivated, urged citizens to use TMC help desks, and vowed no genuine voter would be dropped.
- Suvendu Adhikari led a BJP ‘Parivartan Yatra,’ met the Chief Electoral Officer, and filed complaints alleging irregularities and fake birth certificates linked to KMC and a private agency in multiple districts.
- The CEO’s office assured that all documents submitted with SIR forms will be examined minutely as the process continues.
- Booth Level Officers began field work statewide with reports of threats, while Adhikari urged protection for officials and separately claimed infiltrators were fleeing and demographics had shifted, assertions reported as his allegations.