The enumeration period for these six states and Union territories was to end on Thursday and draft electoral rolls were to be published on December 16. The enumeration period for Tamil Nadu and Gujarat has been extended till December 14 and the draft electoral rolls will be published on December 19
BLOs (Booth Level Officers) and their associates during a sit-in demonstration near Election Commission office to press their demands in Kolkata, Wednesday, November 26. File pic/PTI
The Election Commission on Thursday extended the timeline for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in six states and Union territories following requests from the respective chief electoral officers. In a statement, the Election Commission (EC) issued the revised schedule for SIR in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Uttar Pradesh.
The enumeration period for these six states and Union territories was to end on Thursday and the draft electoral rolls were to be published on December 16. The enumeration period for Tamil Nadu and Gujarat has been extended till December 14 and the draft electoral rolls will be published on December 19, the statement said.
For Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the enumeration period has been extended till December 18 and the draft electoral rolls will be published on December 23. The enumeration period for Uttar Pradesh has been extended till December 26 and the draft electoral rolls will be published on December 31.
According to the statement, the enumeration period for Goa, Puducherry, Lakshadweep, Rajasthan and West Bengal will end on Thursday and the draft electoral rolls will be published on December 16.
TMC: What was hurry in deporting?
The case of two women migrant workers from West Bengal, who were deported to Bangladesh, was raised in Rajya Sabha on Thursday by TMC MP Sagarika Ghose, who questioned the hurry in deporting the women without proper verification.
“On June 21, Sunali Khatun, a 26-year-old pregnant migrant worker, was picked up with her family by the Delhi police and deported to Bangladesh with her family, including her son. Another Bangladeshi migrant worker in Delhi, 32-year-old Sweety and her family were also picked up by Delhi Police and sent to Bangladesh,” Ghose said.
Mamata warns Amit Shah over voter list
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday called Union Home Minister Amit Shah “dangerous”, and warned that she would sit on a dharna if even a single eligible voter’s name was struck off from the list during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Launching a blistering attack on Shah, the chief minister said at a rally in Krishnanagar in Nadia district, “The country’s home minister is dangerous. You can see it in his eyes ' it’s terrifying. In one eye, you see ‘Duryodhan’, and in the other, ‘Dushasan’.”
Alleging that the SIR was being used as a political weapon ahead of the 2026 assembly polls, Banerjee said, “If even a single eligible voter’s name is struck off, I will sit on a dharna. There will be no detention camps in West Bengal. They are so hungry for votes that they are conducting the SIR just two months before elections.” Banerjee said that she herself had not filled out her enumeration form so far.
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