Chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday mentioned that the Election Fee of India (ECI) will determine about conducting a Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal and different states at an applicable time.
Kumar made the remarks whereas addressing a query about the potential for an SIR in Bengal throughout a press convention in New Delhi on Sunday.
“We three (election) commissioners will determine at an applicable time and take a choice on when to conduct SIR in West Bengal or different states,” Gyanesh Kumar mentioned. “It will likely be introduced at an applicable time.”
Earlier in July, the ECI had launched the information from the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll final carried out in West Bengal in 2002, amid issues a few contemporary such train in neighbouring poll-bound Bihar and chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s opposition to it.
The Bengal knowledge was revealed on Monday underneath the top of “Electoral Roll of SIR, 2002” on the web site of the state’s chief electoral officer.
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It covers 11 of the state’s 23 districts—Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Uttar Dinajpur, Dakshin Dinajpur, Malda, Nadia, Howrah, Hooghly, Midnapore, and Bankura, overlaying 103 of 294 meeting constituencies.
West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress has slammed the SIR in Bihar, alleging it was a ploy to surreptitiously introduce the Nationwide Register of Residents (NRC).
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On July 21, Banerjee vowed she wouldn’t permit SIR in Bengal. She requested Sales space Stage Officers (BLOs) to make sure that names of voters aren’t struck off from the electoral roll and persons are not harassed.
“The ECI takes over solely after the ballot dates are introduced. Till then, and even after that, the administration lies with the state authorities. You might be workers of the state authorities. Don’t harass any particular person needlessly,” she mentioned at an administrative assembly in Birbhum.
West Bengal is because of go to the polls in 2026.
