Individuals throughout hearings beneath the SIR of the electoral rolls, at a centre in Balurghat, West Bengal on January 2, 2026.
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The overall variety of ‘logical discrepancies’ detected in electors’ enumeration types within the ongoing Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal has decreased by round 41.51 lakhs for the reason that draft roll was revealed in December.
Logical discrepancies in progeny linking with the 2002 voter record embody situations of mismatch in guardian’s title, age distinction between an elector and their guardian being lower than 15 years or over 50 years, age distinction between the elector and their grandparents being lower than 40 years and one elector linked to over six successors.
As of January 2, 2025, the entire variety of logical discrepancies is round 94.49 lakh, in keeping with sources within the workplace of the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal. These circumstances had been being reverified by election officers for the previous a number of days.
Initially, when the draft roll was revealed on December 16, round 1.67 crore circumstances had been discovered with logical discrepancies, CEO Manoj Kumar Agarwal had mentioned.
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At present, there are round 51 lakh circumstances of mismatch in mother and father’ names, 23 lakh circumstances of electors with over six progenies, 4.74 lakh circumstances of age distinction with mother and father being lower than 15 years, 8.41 lakh circumstances of age distinction with mother and father being over 50 years and almost 3 lakh circumstances of age distinction with grandparents being lower than 40 years.
It’s price noting that Trinamool Congress leaders, together with the get together’s nationwide basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee, had raised questions on why the Election Fee of India (ECI) is just not publishing the record of electors with logical discrepancies within the public area.
The circumstances of logical discrepancies are along with 30 lakh ‘unmapped’ voters who couldn’t set up a familial hyperlink with the voters’ record of 2002 and the 58 lakh names that had been deleted from the draft electoral roll on account of being Absent, Shifted, Lifeless or Duplicate (ASDD).
Earlier than SIR started within the State, there have been roughly 7.66 electors listed on the voter record as of October 27, 2025.
Printed – January 03, 2026 09:57 pm IST
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