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The Trinamool Congress (TMC) connected Sunday (December 28, 2025) alleged that the Election Commission of India (ECI) is forcing aged and ailing citizens, arsenic good arsenic persons with disabilities, to be hearings astatine camps located distant from their residences arsenic portion of the SIR, alternatively of sending officials to their homes for verification.
The proceeding of "unmapped" electors began connected December 27.
TMC MP Partha Bhowmik alleged successful a property league that the ECI has summoned aged and ailing persons who were categorised "unmapped" owed to immoderate discrepancies successful their enumeration forms.
"This is thing abbreviated of torture. The ECI sends polling unit to the residences of aged persons owed to mobility issue. Why could they not travel the aforesaid process this time?" helium said.
Mr. Bhowmik asserted that the TMC leaders had repeatedly flagged this contented during their gathering with the EC but seemingly it was ignored by the canvass panel. "We condemn specified a behaviour." Echoing him, elder Minister Sashi Panja described the ECI's cognition arsenic "inhuman. Elderly persons, ailing and otherwise abled radical are facing large trouble successful reaching the camps astatine the appointed day and hour. The EC indispensable instantly put for their proceeding to instrumentality spot astatine homes by lowering the property bounds for specified a installation of 85 years," she said.
Mr. Panja besides said portion determination are reports that a full of 1.36 crore radical would beryllium called for hearing, determination remains a logical discrepancy arsenic the ECI has not spelt retired connected what number they person been near retired successful the provisional voters database contempt coming up with data.
The elder TMC person demanded that the EC people a break-up of the categories nether which radical were called for hearing.
