Special Intensive Revision

SIR row erupts: BJP hits back after Mamata Banerjee’s letter to CEC; calls her concerns ‘pure fiction’ | India News

Suvendu Adhikari and Mamata Banerjee (Images/Agencies) NEW DELHI: West Bengal leader of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Monday sent a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, dismissing CM Mamata Banerjee‘s “desperate lies” about the SIR exercise and her latest request to the Election Commission to halt it. The BJP leader said her concerns were […]

‘Work tirelessly at field’: EC doubles remuneration of BLOs; hikes pay for supervisors | India News

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Saturday doubled the remuneration for Booth Level Officers (BLOs) from Rs 6,000 to Rs 12,000 per election cycle. The decision also includes an increase in pay for BLO supervisors, whose remuneration has been raised from Rs 12,000 to Rs 18,000.“The electoral roll machinery, consisting of Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), […]

‘50,000 votes per seat’: Akhilesh Yadav’s big charge against EC, BJP; claims SIR to target UP, Bengal | India News

NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday levelled serious allegations against the Election Commission and the BJP, claiming the two were working together to misuse the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. He alleged that the revision exercise was being deployed to “cancel over 50,000 votes” in assembly constituencies where INDIA […]

Electoral rolls | Rahul Gandhi ups the ante

On August 7, at the Congress headquarters in new Delhi, party leader Rahul Gandhi stood in a room filled with cameras and anticipation, holding what he described as proof of India’s gravest democratic crisis. The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha raised a spiral-bound stack of papers, culled from a seven-foot pile of […]

Bihar voter rolls | Ruckus over the rolls

It is a sultry August morning in Patna, and the Sadar block office wears the quiet, composed air of a still life portrait. Three officers sit at their desks, a laptop loaded with draft electoral rolls before them, a wall pasted with printed lists…and zero visitors. Not a single elector has walked in to check […]

Bihar's Special Intensive Revision | Citizenship on trial

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