Sir in Bengal: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has adopted an unusual form of protest, authoring 26 poems in support of her political and legal battle against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the poll-bound state. The poems in the book titled “SIR: 26 in 26” stand out with titles like…
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to ensure transparency in the verification of the ‘logical discrepancy’ list published during the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu, legal news website LiveLaw reported. A Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reiterated her claim that at least three to four people are dying by suicide every day in the state due to anxiety over the ongoing SIR exercise. The special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is underway in the state ahead of the upcoming assembly polls. Addressing a program…
The Supreme Court directed the Election Commission (EC) on Monday to display the names of those on the “logical discrepancies” list at gram panchayat bhavans, block offices of talukas and ward offices in West Bengal. The court noted that 1.25 crore voters in the state figure on the “logical discrepancies” list. Logical discrepancies in progeny…
Polling for the long-delayed Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections concluded on Thursday amid widespread complaints from voters and political parties, setting the stage for a closely watched counting day on January 16. The civic polls, held after a gap of nine years, were marred by reports of voter list discrepancies, administrative lapses and concerns over polling…
The Election Commission on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it functions as the original authority in matters relating to electoral rolls and conduct of polls and its opinion is binding on the President if a person acquires citizenship of another country. The panel submitted that the consequence of an adverse finding during the Special…
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has once again written to chief election commission (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar raising questions about the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in poll-bound West Bengal. This time the TMC chief has claimed that the Artificial Intelligence-driven digitization errors in the 2002 electoral rolls were causing widespread hardship to genuine voters…
A 79-year-old man long presumed dead by his family returned to his hometown Khatauli in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh to collect documents for the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal, Sharif Ahmad, settled in West Bengal for the past many years, had gone ‘missing’ since 1997 when he moved out of…
The Election Commission has once again revised the schedule for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh. The with the draft voter list will now be published on January 6, 2026, and the final list on March 6. This is the third revision in the SIR schedule in Uttar Pradesh…
