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Bengal RS bypolls: BJP may field three former TMC MPs

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.

SIR hearing centre shifted after all villagers receive summons

Responding to protests by all 1,100 voters of a single village in East Burdwan's Katwa sub-division, who had been served summons for hearings in the second phase of the SIR process, the district electoral officer has agreed to set up hearing centres in their village instead of the one 10 km away, where they were initially called.

Shankaracharya flags SIR concerns at Gangasagar

Jagadguru Swami Sri Nischalananda Saraswati, the 145 Shankaracharya of the Govardhan Peeth in Puri, on Tuesday expressed concern over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, urging that not a single eligible voter’s name be deleted in the process.