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.
A key objective behind the deployment of these additional observers is to ensure maintenance of law and order at counting centres and to guarantee that the entire process is conducted in a secure, peaceful, fear-free and transparent manner.
A technical glitch disrupted the voting process at a polling booth under Diamod Harbour seat on Saturday.
The top court noted the Election Commission’s assurance on implementing its April 13 circular, while hearing AITC’s challenge linked to counting staff deployment in Bengal.
As per sources, the he suspension order was issued following serious administrative concerns.
Amid complaints of irregularities, the Election Commission has ordered repolling across 15 booths in two Assembly constituencies of West Bengal.
