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A delegation of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) visited the office of the State’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal on Thursday (October 16, 2025) and submitted a memorandum with demands for modification of the process of the impending Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls.
The memorandum listed out 16-point demands like the inclusion of electoral rolls since 2002 till that of the Assembly election in 2021 as probative evidence of eligibility and citizenship of a voter if a large population of electors cannot be mapped in the 2002 voters’ list.
For context, the last SIR of the voters’ list in West Bengal was conducted in 2002, and during the recent SIR in Bihar, the e
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