Election Commission publishes two more supplementary lists with three lakh names
Telegraph | 1 April 2026
The Election Commission on Tuesday published the fifth and sixth supplementary lists, which contained three lakh names, taking the total number of people whose names were published in the supplementary lists following adjudication by judicial officers to 29 lakh.
Sources on the poll panel said a little over 40 per cent of the three lakh names published on Tuesday had been deleted from the electoral rolls, even though the absolute number of the omitted voters could not be ascertained immediately.
So far, about 42 lakh of 60.06 lakh under-adjudication cases have been disposed of. The preliminary final electoral roll as part of the SIR drive was published on February 28.
“As some of the disposal orders were without the e-signatures of the judicial officers, they couldn’t be included in the supplementary lists. But as the EC was publishing supplementary lists every day, the backlogs will be cleared soon,” said a source.
Tribunals
The state government has started setting up infrastructure for tribunals at the Syama Prasad Mookerjee National Institute of Water and Sanitation (SPM-NIWAS) at Joka in Calcutta. It was decided that all 19 tribunals would function from this particular institute.
The excluded voters would be able to appeal before the tribunals online through the ECI Net platform. They can also appeal physically by submitting applications to the SDO and the DM, who in turn would digitise the same and upload them, sources said.
“But it is yet to be ascertained how the tribunals would work if any applicant is required to appear before the tribunals. Perhaps, guidelines would soon be issued by Calcutta High Court or the Supreme Court in this regard,” said an official.
BDO suspended
The EC suspended block development officer, Hanskhali, Sayantan Bhattacharya, after it held that the BDO had failed to discharge his duty properly while a primary school teacher in Ranaghat was assaulted allegedly by some employees of the BDO office during a training for poll officials on Friday.
The primary school teacher was assaulted when he objected to the screening of a state government advertisement featuring chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
“The EC had asked for a report from the DEO on the issue. The BDO was showcaused. The EC felt that the officer failed to discharge his duty properly after it received the reply to the showcause, and he was placed under suspension,” said a poll panel source.
Police had on Saturday arrested two officials of the Nadia district administration — Manas Bandopadhyay and Nazimuddin Sardar — on charges of assaulting the polling officer during the training session at Ranaghat.