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The full fig of ‘logical discrepancies’ detected successful electors’ enumeration forms successful the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) successful West Bengal has decreased by astir 41.51 lakhs since the draught rotation was published successful December.
Logical discrepancies successful progeny linking with the 2002 elector database see instances of mismatch successful parent’s name, property quality betwixt an elector and their genitor being little than 15 years oregon implicit 50 years, property quality betwixt the elector and their grandparents being little than 40 years and 1 elector linked to implicit six successors.
As of January 2, 2025, the full fig of logical discrepancies is astir 94.49 lakh, according to sources successful the bureau of the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal. These cases were being reverified by predetermination officials for the past respective days.
Initially, erstwhile the draught rotation was published connected December 16, astir 1.67 crore cases were recovered with logical discrepancies, CEO Manoj Kumar Agarwal had said.
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Currently, determination are astir 51 lakh cases of mismatch successful parents’ names, 23 lakh cases of electors with implicit six progenies, 4.74 lakh cases of property quality with parents being little than 15 years, 8.41 lakh cases of property quality with parents being implicit 50 years and astir 3 lakh cases of property quality with grandparents being little than 40 years.
It is worthy noting that Trinamool Congress leaders, including the party’s nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee, had raised questions connected wherefore the Election Commission of India (ECI) is not publishing the database of electors with logical discrepancies successful the nationalist domain.
The cases of logical discrepancies are successful summation to 30 lakh ‘unmapped’ voters who could not found a familial nexus with the voters’ database of 2002 and the 58 lakh names that were deleted from the draught electoral rotation connected relationship of being Absent, Shifted, Dead oregon Duplicate (ASDD).
Before SIR began successful the State, determination were astir 7.66 electors listed connected the elector database arsenic of October 27, 2025.
