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Representatives of marginalised communities appealed to State predetermination officials for the simplification of rules of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls for astir radical belonging to scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, Matua and different deprived communities who are astatine hazard of losing their electoral rights for the deficiency of recognition documents.
“The scheduled caste ballot successful the State is astir 34%. Of them, determination are implicit a 100 sub-castes. Nearly 30 to 40 lakh radical from marginalised communities, we believe, volition beryllium incapable to nutrient immoderate documents to beryllium their rights arsenic electors. So we person appealed to the Governor and to the predetermination officials to simplify the rules of SIR for these communities,” Mrityunjoy Mallick, nationalist president of the Scheduled Caste Federation, said astatine the bureau of the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal successful Kolkata connected Saturday (December 6, 2025).
He added that they came to request the extortion of the rights of marginalised radical connected Mahaparinirvan Diwas, observed connected December 6 each twelvemonth for the decease day of Dr B.R. Ambedkar.
In a missive to the Chief Election Commissioner, the organisation appealed for marginalised radical to beryllium capable to nexus themselves to immoderate comparative crossed their extended household whose sanction is contiguous successful the electoral rotation of 2002. For context, during SIR, electors who tin hint their ain names oregon the names of their parents successful the 2002 database would automatically suffice for the draught elector roll.
“We person demanded that for marginalised people, if immoderate familial transportation done grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc, is recovered successful the 2002 list, their electoral rights beryllium protected arsenic agelong arsenic they are alive. Especially for radical similar the forest-dwelling Adivasis, the Rajbanshis, the nomadic Bede community, the sanitation workers, the cremation workers, for whom resources and documents are sparse,” Mr Mallick said.
He added that galore radical from marginalised communities are calved wrong homes and deficiency commencement certificates.
“The database of 12 indicative recognition documents besides includes caste certificates, domicile certificates, onshore deeds, etc. We impulse the Election Commission to organise camps truthful that marginalised radical who bash not person these documents tin get them done,” the activistic said.
In their letter, the Scheduled Caste Federation has besides appealed for information towards joined women whose surnames mightiness not lucifer their names successful the 2002 list, and towards radical who person been displaced crossed West Bengal, particularly owed to embankment breaches.
“There person been assorted instances of displacement and socioeconomic deprivations that person led to radical from marginalised communities not possessing oregon losing their individuality documents. These radical are successful a perpetual combat to unafraid their lives and livelihoods. They haven’t had the clip to deliberation astir documents each this while,” Mr Mallick said.
He added that the voters who are surviving and person formed their ballot betwixt 2002 and 2025 towards the enactment of the existent Union authorities and State government, “must beryllium protected.”
As of December 6, 99.43% enumeration forms from 7.66 crore electors person been successfully collected and digitised. On Saturday, the fig of ‘uncollectable’ forms of dead, shifted, duplicate oregon absent voters crossed 55 lakhs.
