EC team to monitor Bengal SIR work from Nov 18-21, Suvendu Adhikari to challenge dead voter issue

Kolkata: A high-level Election Commission team, led by DEC Gyanesh Bharti to reach Bengal, will visit Bengal from November 18-21 to oversee and monitor SIR in Bengal. Meanwhile, CEC Gyanesh Kumar held a VC with all 12 CEOs including West Bengal to monitor the progress of SIR work from 4 pm today.

The ECI team will hold a series of meetings with the DEOs, ADMs, EROs and other election officials of Kolkata North, Kolkata-South, Nadia, Murshidabad, Malda and South 24 Parganas districts during this period.

The ECI team will hold meetings in Kolkata North, Kolkata South and South 24 Parganas districts on November 18. The ECI team from Delhi will hold meetings with District Election Officers (DEOs), who are District Magistrates, ADM (Election), District OC-Election, all EROs and SM of the concerned districts and monitor the SIR work.


The ECI team will hold similar meetings in Nadia and Murshidabad on November 19 and Malda on November 20.

The ECI team, after reviewing the progress of ongoing SIR on November 18-20, will attend the workshop on FLC (EVM) on November 21, EC officials said.

A four-member team will visit Bengal starting from November 18, led by senior Deputy Election Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti. Apart from Bharti, the team will include Principal Secretary S B Joshy, Principal Secretary Malay Mallick and Deputy Secretary Abhinav Aggarwal

Agarwal, along with Additional CEOs, Joint and Deputy CEOs will also be participating in the meeting.

Meanwhile, West Bengal-CEO’s office has introduced a toll free helpline number, whatsapp number and email id for replying to queries of the electors

Suvendu Adhikari to move court

LoP Suvendu Adhikari to move court over dead voters issue and multiple duplicate voters in a single booth issue.

Adhikari will move court over dead voters and multiple duplicate voters in a single booth. “We will draw the attention of DEC Gyanesh Bharti over the dead voter issue and put our complaint to them about dead voters and have sought time from Bharti,” Adhikari said.