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.
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The ERO attributed the incident to missing mandatory particulars in the enumeration form submitted by Admiral Prakash, which prevented automatic verification by the electoral system.
Hearing a batch of pleas, a bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice Surya Kant posted the matter for further hearing on Monday, January 19.
A political storm has erupted in Uttar Pradesh over the draft voter list released after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. Samajwadi Party (SP) National President Akhilesh Yadav has questioned the credibility of the Election Commission of India (ECI), alleging a deliberate conspiracy to remove the names of voters belonging to the PDA (Backward Classes, Dalits, and Minorities) communities.
Sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that so far, only 69 such private housing complexes with 300 or more residents have been identified in West Bengal, far less than the estimated requirement.
