SIR 2002 Voter List Appears On Bengal CEO Site
A click on each of 11 districts shows the names of its Assembly constituencies (ACs) which have the names of the polling stations and voters in each. The website also carries a floating message: Electoral Roll of SIR 2002 (remaining ACs will be uploaded soon).
Kolkata: An electoral roll of the special intensive revision (SIR), 2002 of some districts has appeared on the website of Chief Electoral Officer, West Bengal, indicating the Election Commission’s warm-up to start the process of scrutinising the voters' list in the state ahead of next year’s Assembly polls, amid opposition by the Trinamul Congress.
The list contains the names of 11 districts– six in North Bengal and five in South Bengal. The North Bengal districts are Coochbehar, Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Uttar Dinajpur, Dakshin Dinajpur and Malda. The South Bengal districts are Nadia, Howrah, Hooghly, Medinipur and Bankura.
A click on each of 11 districts shows the names of its Assembly constituencies (ACs) which have the names of the polling stations and voters in each. The website also carries a floating message: Electoral Roll of SIR 2002 (remaining ACs will be uploaded soon). Incidentally, the last SIR was conducted in the state around 23 years ago during the Left-rule.
The upload of the voters' list of that time came to light on Monday when Trinamul Congress supremo and chief minister Mamata Banerjee warned the BJP and EC from her Bhasa Andolon (language movement) launch in Birbhum against the omission of genuine names among the existing electors in the roll on the suspicion of being Bangladeshi infiltrators.
It also came days after a training module about the SIR was held in Kolkata for the assistant electoral registration officers, supervisors and booth level officers in some districts.
