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The Election Commission of India volition sojourn Kerala and West Bengal connected March 6-7 and March 9-10, respectively, to reappraisal preparedness for the upcoming Assembly polls. Sources said the canvass docket tin beryllium announced immoderate clip aft the West Bengal visit.
The Commission has already visited poll-bound Tamil Nadu, Assam, and the Union Territory of Puducherry.
During the visit, the afloat Commission, led by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, volition clasp meetings with registered governmental parties successful the States arsenic good arsenic with the heads/nodal officers of enforcement agencies, Inspectors General, Deputy Inspectors General, District Electoral Officers, and Superintendents of Police among others connected predetermination planning, EVM management, logistics, grooming of predetermination staff, seizures, instrumentality and order, elector consciousness and outreach activities.
The presumption of the Assemblies successful each these States extremity betwixt May and June. The West Bengal Assembly’s word gets implicit connected May 7, Tamil Nadu’s connected May 10, Assam’s connected May 20, Kerala’s connected May 23, and Puducherry’s connected June 15.
Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was conducted nether Phase 2 successful each the poll-bound States barring Assam wherever a Special Revision was done owed to ineligible complications related to the unpublished National Register of Citizens.
Following the SIR, the fig of voters has gone down successful Tamil Nadu (11.55%), Kerala (3.22%), West Bengal (8%) and Puducherry (7.57%).
While last elector lists person been published successful Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry, and Assam, successful West Bengal the database released connected February 28 has much than 60 lakh voters marked arsenic nether “adjudication” whose cases are being decided by court-appointed judicial officers. These voters volition beryllium added to the last database erstwhile their names are cleared; they tin ballot successful the Assembly polls aft that.
Last month, the Calcutta High Court informed the Supreme Court that it was not imaginable for its constricted fig of judicial officers to promptly adjudicate much than 60 lakh elector claims, arising retired of “logical discrepancy” oregon for remaining “unmapped”, during the SIR successful West Bengal pursuing which the apical tribunal allowed deploying judges from neighbouring Odisha and Jharkhand.
