Nearly 91 lakh names have been removed from voter rolls under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Of these, about 27 lakh were struck off after being flagged by an artificial intelligence filter for “logical discrepancies.”
About 7.5 lakh cases of judicial adjudication of voters’ documents classified under the “logical discrepancy” category have been completed till Friday evening, informed the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal.
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BJP leaders hit out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the voter list SIR exercise, escalating political tensions between the BJP and the Trinamool Congress.
While the Bengal Government has been Opposing the controversial electoral roll revision exercise, Governor Bose called it an "important process".
The initial deadline for completing the distribution of enumeration forms was November 11, but at that time, around 15 per cent of the electorate could not get them.
The BLOs, as part of the Electoral Workers Unity Forum, said they must be given security when they go to booth-level areas for election duty as part of the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
