2003 list to be reference for ‘missing’ Kulpi, North 24 Pgns booths
Times of India | 6 November 2025
Kolkata: The Election Commission has recognised the 2003 voter list as the reference point for the ongoing SIR exercise for 187 booths under the Kulpi assembly segment and in a few booths in North 24 Parganas, as those booths were found missing from the 2002 SIR list.
"We have not found a large number of booths under the Kulpi assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas in the 2002 SIR list. A few booths in North 24 Parganas were also found missing from that list. Only for those booths have we made the 2003 voter list the reference point for the ongoing SIR exercise," said a senior official at the office of the chief electoral officer, Bengal. "But it does not mean that any elector who found his or her name missing from the 2002 SIR list can fill the enumeration form referring to the 2003 voter lists.
This facility has been provided only to the electorates of those mentioned booths," he clarified.
However, Trinamool national general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee has questioned the Commission's consistency and neutrality. "The EC says the 2002 list will be treated as the reference. Then why is the 2003 list being used in Kulpi? How can there be different rules for different constituencies?" he asked, raising doubts about the EC's preparedness.