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The Election Commission of India (EC) connected Wednesday announced that the draught electoral rotation for West Bengal volition beryllium published according to the existing polling stations. The determination was taken aft the State’s District Electoral Officer’s (DEOs) nonaccomplishment to finalise a connection for caller polling booths connected time, it said.
The EC has erstwhile again postponed the deadline for polling booth rearrangement from December 11 to February 7, 2026, a week earlier the last electoral rotation is scheduled to beryllium published connected February 14.
In a missive to the Bengal’s Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal connected Wednesday, the EC said: “No connection of polling stations has been received truthful far. The committee has taken a precise superior presumption of the nonaccomplishment connected the portion of the DEOs… The DEOs are liable for immoderate deficiency of sufficiency of polling stations for electors successful theresidential colonies.”
The missive highlighted that contempt repeated reminders to the DEOs during reappraisal meetings to implicit the workout earlier the work of the draught electoral roll, nary connection connected polling booths has been submitted.
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The EC had earlier instructed predetermination officials to undertake an extended survey for mounting up caller polling stations successful high-rises, radical lodging societies, gated societies and slum clusters successful municipality areas with astatine slightest 250 houses oregon 500 voters.
In the letter, the EC directed that the proposals for the rationalisation oregon rearrangement of polling stations beryllium sent for support by December 31.
