The process of voter list under Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is progressing rapidly in West Bengal. According to the daily bulletin issued by the Chief Electoral Officer, the total number of claims and objections received by political parties during the period from December 17 to December 30 has reached 20,7001.
There were names of a total of 7,08,16,630 voters in the draft voter list. This mainly includes claims filed by national and state level parties through Block Level Agents (BLA). According to the bulletin, BJP filed the highest number of claims/objections at 60,186, of which only 1 was for inclusion of the name and 0 for deletion.
All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) filed 77,091 claims/objections, requesting inclusion of 3 names and deletion of no names. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) submitted 49,079 claims, including 2 names for inclusion. Congress filed 18,733 claims, but there was no explicit request for inclusion or deletion of any name. Other parties like Bahujan Samaj Party (21), All India Forward Bloc (1,885) etc. also made limited claims.
Overall, there was a demand for inclusion of 8 names received by political parties, while there was no demand for deletion of any name. It has been clarified in the bulletin that general complaints are not considered filed by block level agents without the prescribed form (Form 6 or 7). Apart from this, the number of Form 6 (for adding names) received from general voters is reported to be 1,64,314 and the number of Form 7 (for deleting names) is 35,102. The number of Form 6 received before the draft publication was 3,31,075 and that of Form 7 was 56,867.
According to the Commission, the claim-objection period will continue till January 15, 2026. The hearing phase has started from December 27, in which notices have been sent to about 31-32 lakh ‘unmapped’ voters (whose names could not be added to the old list of 2002). Hearings are going on at more than 3,200 centers across the state, where long queues are formed.
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