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The Election Commission said it has appointed 5 nodal officers for first-level checking (FLC) of the physics voting machines (EVMs) up of adjacent year’s West Bengal Assembly polls.
All the officers hailed from different states, the canvass sheet said successful a statement.
The EC has introduced rules by which the representation of each campaigner would beryllium displayed connected the EVM.
The 5 nodal officers were appointed arsenic observers astatine antithetic FLC venues for Assembly polls, said the connection issued connected Sunday (December 14, 2025).
The 5 officers are Shania Kayem Mize (deputy CEO, Arunachal Pradesh), Yogesh Gosavi (deputy CEO, Maharashtra), P K Boro (additional CEO, Meghalaya), Ethel Rothangpuii (joint CEO, Mizoram) and Kanishka Kumar (under caput of ECI).
In the 2021 elections, West Bengal had implicit 80,000 booths.
An EC authoritative said that pursuing the enumeration, the fig of booths is apt to spell up by implicit 10,000.
