1 lakh voters deleted from Bengal poll rolls from Jan to March
Times of India | 7 March 2025
Kolkata: The Election Commission deleted names of one lakh voters in Bengal from the rolls between Jan 6 and March 6, state's acting CEO Dibyendu Das said on Thursday. The deletion was mostly of names who had died.
Das said the EC deleted 9.7 lakh names during the publication of the final rolls in Jan 2025, as among them 5.4 lakh had died and 3.9 lakh had shifted and there was repetition of 31,894 names and an addition of 14.3 lakh voters.
Das said the poll panel had asked all its 80,530 booth-level officers (BLOs) in Bengal to go for home-based verifications so that complaints don't crop up. He said the BLOs had also been instructed to keep tabs on all 17-plus teenagers, who would be turning 18 years within the next six months.
Das said the petition submitted by Trinamool would be forwarded to the EC. "The electoral registration officer (ERO) is the final authority to delete names of voters if they are satisfied that a voter had either shifted or had died and for which they normally verifies through the BLOs. The EC has asked BLOs and assistant returning officers to coordinate with booth-level agents of parties," he said.
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