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 large-scale revision drive, conducted as per the directions of the Election Commission of India (ECI), has resulted in the registration of 4.34 crore voters across the state.
Over 38 lakh voters are likely to be deleted from the voter list as SIR exercise is nearing completion in Madhya Pradesh.
The ECI has deleted 58,20,899 voters, accounting for around 7.59 per cent of the total electorate in the state.
The Election Commission of india has released West Bengal's draft electoral rolls following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
The Election Commission (EC) announced Monday that the draft electoral rolls for five regions — West Bengal, Rajasthan, Goa, Puducherry, and Lakshadweep — will be officially published on Tuesday, December 16.
