The Election Commission of India (ECI) has obtained extra than 3.5 lakh claims from voters for the inclusion and deletion of names after the draft electoral roll within the continued Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal changed into once published on December 16, 2025, officials own acknowledged.
Political occasions, alongside with the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and rival Bharatiya Janata Celebration, own submitted eight varieties on this regard.
“We obtained on the least 3,51,812 claims for inclusion and deletion of names after the draft roll changed into once published. While 3,13,034 of these were for inclusion of names (make 6), the final 38,778 were claims for deletion of names (make 7),” acknowledged a senior first rate of the pollpanel in Kolkata.
The names of spherical 5.8 million needless, replica, absent and shifted voters were struck off from the draft electoral roll published on December 16, 2025. Around 3.2 million voters were stumbled on to be unmapped. While the ECI within the origin stumbled on spherical 16.7 million voters who had logical discrepancies of their enumeration varieties, the amount later dropped to spherical 9.4 million after scrutiny, and the elimination of youth discrepancies equivalent to errors in spellings.
“The claims and objections which we are receiving (varieties 6 and 7) are essentially from voters whose names were no longer there within the 2025 electoral roll, recent voters and these whose names were struck off from the draft roll (needless, shifted, absent and replica voters),” the first rate acknowledged.
The ECI has despatched hearing notices to spherical seven million unmapped voters and these with logical discrepancies in reference to SIR in West Bengal till date, officials responsive to the trends acknowledged.
The TMC has been attacking the pollpanel over the alleged deletion of “precise voters” and these who’re being called for hearing over logical discrepancies. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has already despatched five letters to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, flagging numerous considerations.
Within the latest letter which she despatched on Monday, Banerjee alleged that digitisation of the 2002 SIR database the use of AI (synthetic intelligence) tools own resulted in dapper scale mismatches. Many precise voters were categorized as logical discrepancies.
TMC nationwide traditional secretary Abhishek Banerjee, while addressing a rally in Cooch Behar on Tuesday, paraded 10 participants on the dais alleging that they’ve been declared needless within the draft roll. Earlier on January 2, he paraded three participants on the dais at a rally in South 24 Parganas claiming that they’ve been declared needless and their names were struck off from the draft roll.
“Now we own obtained eight claims from political occasions for inclusion of voters within the electoral roll. While three own advance from the TMC, two from the CPI(M) and one each and every from the Bahujan Samaj Celebration (BSP), BJP and All India Forward Bloc. Even despite the indisputable truth that the political occasions can facilitate the submission of such claims and objections via varieties 6 and 7, within the conclude the voter concerned has to have up the make and put up it,” acknowledged the first rate quoted above.
Abhishek Banerjee, nevertheless, claimed that the EC acknowledged they never disclosed the names of deleted voters, as a results of which very few claims and objections own poured in.
“Names of extra than 5 million precise voters were illegally deleted the use of AI. Females, who needed to shift and replace their surname after marriage, were targeted. This list wasn’t made public. You would possibly per chance per chance presumably now place aside a matter to of: why there are so few claims and objections? I heard that an EC first rate in Kolkata has acknowledged that nearly all effective three claims and objections were submitted. Is it the truth? Whilst you happen to don’t make public the list of deleted voters, how will the opposite folks know? You are no longer accepting the claims and objections,” Mamata Banerjee, who can even be the TMC supremo, acknowledged at some level of a press convention on the reveal secretariat on Tuesday.
A senior pollpanel first rate, nevertheless, acknowledged that the constituency-wise lists of absent, shifted, needless and replica (ASDD) voters were published and uploaded on the pollpanel’s web scheme in December 2025.
“The BLOs who silent the records from the ground, in line with which names of voters were deleted, are all reveal govt officers. Deleting names of precise voters and exhibiting them as needless will even be a ploy to malign the SIR route of. Abhishek Banerjee ought to unruffled also parade these BLOs on the ramp. The manager minister is telling all lies. The gross sales place of living-wise and constituency-wise ASDD voters’ list changed into once published spherical the identical time the draft roll changed into once published. How else would Abhishek Banerjee know the identification of needless voters?” acknowledged Shankar Ghosh, BJP legislator and the party’s chief whip within the reveal legislative assembly.
