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Despite repeated summons issued to voters, West Bengal’s Chief Electoral Officer connected Saturday (February 14, 2026) said 4.98 lakh electors person not showed up for the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) hearings successful the State. Additionally, 1.63 lakh voters person been flagged arsenic “ineligible” owed to errors.
This comes connected the day (February 14) that the SIR hearings were formally completed in the State aft a seven-day hold fixed by the Election Commission (EC).
“For the radical whose names are in the draught rotation but their names did not diagnostic successful the final roll, they volition each get an order. Then, they volition person a accidental to marque an entreaty to the District Election Officer, and past to the CEO. They tin ever get their names backmost [on the rolls] if they were removed owed to errors,” Manoj Kumar Agarwal, West Bengal CEO, said.
He added that each SIR hearings person been officially completed successful West Bengal wrong the extended deadline.
For caller inclusions
Mr. Agarwal added that this is not the extremity of inclusions and deletions from the voter list as voters tin inactive use for caller inclusions done Form 6 during other upcoming elections.
However, each the 4.98 lakh no-shows astatine hearings and 1.63 lakh ineligible voters could beryllium removed from the 2026 last elector database of West Bengal.
Around 58 lakh voters were deleted after the draught electoral rolls were published. They came nether the dead, permanently shifted, untraceable categories. Over 94.49 lakh radical were summoned for hearings nether the logical discrepancies category, and 31.68 lakh were classified arsenic “unmapped”, they were besides asked to look for hearings.
A full of 7,66,37,529 electors were enrolled successful West Bengal’s elector database arsenic of October 27, 2025, earlier the SIR workout started. Of them, 7,08,16,630 names have featured in the draught voters’ list.
Calling upon the Electoral Registration Officers and Assistant Electoral Registration Officers, helium said: “It is present each connected them to bash their jobs without fearfulness or favour so we tin get a cleanable elector database successful West Bengal, which does not region immoderate valid elector but besides does not adhd immoderate fake oregon amerciable voter.” He added that the EROs and AEROs indispensable travel each EC guidelines and make decisions astir voters after verifying each documents.
According to sources successful the CEO’s office, they besides received 42,501 Form 7 submissions. However, they did not share whether the verdict connected elector deletions based connected the Form 7 submissions has been reached.
The last elector database is acceptable to beryllium published connected February 28, aft which the predetermination dates are apt to beryllium declared. The 2026 State Assembly elections are expected to take spot successful the adjacent fewer months.
