Special one-day SIR camp at all polling booths in Punjab on July 19
The house-to-house enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is currently underway across Punjab and will continue until August 3.
The house-to-house enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is currently underway across Punjab and will continue until August 3.
The Election Commission of India’s recent announcement of by-elections to three Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal, which fell vacant following the resignations of Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik — the three Trinamool Congress MPs who stepped down after the party’s debacle in the recent West Bengal Assembly elections — has brought the focus back on the former MPs and the BJP’s plans for them.
"The Election Commission has heard our case today, and now we are waiting. We are in our fight," Natarajan told reporters in Delhi.
The 1998-batch IAS officer of the West Bengal cadre is replacing Manoj Kumar Agarwal, who was earlier appointed as the state's new Chief Secretary.
According to officials, Punjab currently has around 2.14 crore registered voters, and the revision exercise aims to update the electoral database ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections in the state.
The petition, filed under Article 32 of the Constitution, assails the direct transfer of Rs 10,000 to women voters in Bihar during the enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct.
The last such conference was held in 1999. The upcoming event aims to strengthen institutional coordination between the ECI and State Election Commissions amid an increasingly complex electoral environment.
The apex court cautioned the election commission against wrongful exclusion of genuine voters as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banergjee, while arguing her case, alleged political bias against the state, deployment of micro-observers from BJP-ruled states.
Raising concerns of large-scale and irreversible disenfranchisement, Banerjee has contended that the ongoing SIR poses a serious threat to the voting rights of lakhs of eligible electors and would severely undermine the level playing field among political parties ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections.
He said that alleged BJP fraudsters are themselves printing Form-7 and forging signatures to try to get the votes of PDA community voters, especially those from the minority community, removed from the voters' list.
