Fate of 27 lakh + names in limbo after voter list freeze
The voter list for the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly Election 2026 was frozen at midnight on Monday, Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Agarwal had announced on Monday evening.
The voter list for the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly Election 2026 was frozen at midnight on Monday, Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Agarwal had announced on Monday evening.
The Election Commission will release the second phase of the updated voter list on Monday evening, publishing details of all pending voter entries that have been processed so far.
Tamil Nadu final electoral roll after SIR: Of the total 5.67 crore voters in the southern state, 2.77 crore are males, while 2.89 crore are females.
As over 3.26 crore voters would receive notices regarding their inclusion in the voter list, the ECI has extended the time for claims and objections from February to March 6.
In a statement, TMC Rajya Sabha MP Saket Gokhale said ECI officials had now acknowledged that software-related errors were responsible for the deletion of names of legitimate voters from the electoral rolls.
As per ECI officials, the SIR found 31.51 lakh voters absent or shifted from their previous addresses.
Shashikant, a resident of Kapasdanga Lichutala in Ward No. 8 of Chinsurah Municipality, served in the mechanical engineering department of the Indian Army for nearly three decades.
Painting the EC and Modi government in black, the protests were also a show of strength and solidarity among the allies of the DMK-led Secular Progressive Front, comprising the Congress, VCK, Left Parties, MDMK, and Muslim parties, and others.
S Chokkalingam, Maharashtra's Chief Electoral Officer, also asked them to submit a report by next week, after which a copy of this report will be given to opposition party leaders in the state.
The bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, taking this on record, directed the Bihar Legal Services Authority (BLSA) to instruct all district legal services authorities to depute or notify para-legal volunteers for assisting voters and political parties in online submission of claims, objections and corrections.
