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GUWAHATI
Most governmental parties successful Assam person urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to clasp the State’s forthcoming Assembly predetermination successful not much than 2 phases.
The afloat Bench of the ECI, headed by the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, reviewed the State’s canvass preparedness successful Guwahati connected Tuesday (February 17, 2026). The sheet held meetings with delegations of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress, and different governmental parties.
Mr. Kumar held the reappraisal gathering with elder constabulary and State predetermination officers, including Chief Electoral Officer Anurag Goel, successful the beingness of Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi.
Among the different governmental parties were the All India United Democratic Front, Asom Gana Parishad, Bodoland People’s Front, United People’s Party Liberal, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), and the Aam Aadmi Party. These parties invariably favoured the behaviour of the elections, expected by April, successful a azygous signifier oregon 2 phases.
They besides suggested steps to guarantee a peaceful behaviour of the polls. The ECI delegation, which arrived connected Monday (February 16, 2026), is expected to measure the SIR of electoral rolls.
‘Doubtful deletions’
Earlier, the Assam portion of the CPI(M) had urged the ECI to guarantee an error-free voters’ list. In a memorandum submitted to Mr. Kumar, the enactment said authoritative information relating to the SIR showed that 35,94,983 claims and objections were received crossed the State. Of these, 12,97,796 were filed nether Form-7 seeking deletion of names.
The enactment pointed retired that 10,63,647 specified objections and 5,86,146 caller inclusions nether Form-6 were accepted.
“While deletions connected morganatic grounds are portion of immoderate revision, the extraordinarily measurement and precocious acceptance complaint of deletion warrant cautious scrutiny to guarantee that the Constitutional warrant of franchise nether Article 326 has not been compromised done procedural infirmities oregon coordinated misuse,” the CPI(M) said.
Assam has 126 Assembly seats. The word of the existent Assembly volition expire connected May 20. The 2016 and 2021 Assembly election, won by the BJP-led alliance, were held successful 2 and 3 phases, respectively.
