Odisha's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, aimed at ensuring a more accurate, transparent and error-free voter database, has gathered significant momentum, with the statewide exercise successfully entering its fifth day on Wednesday.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday inaugurated the second National Conference of Counsels representing the poll body at the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM), with a strong focus on electoral transparency, procedural safeguards and legal preparedness.
Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government is constructing a ‘leak-proof security grid,’ and wherever physical fencing is difficult, an impenetrable security cordon by deploying technological fencing is being established.
Maharashtra State Congress Committee President Harshwardhan Sapkal wrote to Maharashtra State Chief Electoral Officer S Chokalingam requesting that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) not be conducted during the Pandharpur Wari pilgrimage due to expected heavy rainfall.
The Court further said, “The consequence of such a determination is correspondingly limited.
With temperatures touching 42°C, polling percentages surged beyond 90 per cent in several districts. The turnout was largely driven by women and elderly voters, many of whom queued for hours despite the harsh weather.
The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a petition filed by several electoral duty officers whose names were deleted from the electoral rolls in West Bengal following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), even as they remain engaged in conducting the ongoing Assembly elections.
The electoral sky over battleground Bengal is thick with the dust raised by the controversy surrounding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, occasionally punctuated by politics of cultural belonging, with candidates campaigning with fish in hand to prove their Bengali identity.
Barely 1,08,290 names have been deleted across the eleven Assembly constituencies in Birbhum district following the SIR.
Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, holding her responsible for the alleged exclusion of several names during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
