It's yet to be ascertained why," a poll official said. The commission had detected a significant number of fictitious voters in some Assembly segments during the summary revision of rolls before the SIR started." “This is why the poll panel is not ruling out any possibility. “The poll panel had received several complaints about BLOs being forced to upload many enumeration forms under pressure from political leaders. Before the SIR began, the Bengal chief electoral officer’s office had conducted a sample survey of the electoral rolls in four Assembly segments — Baruipur East, Rajarhat-Gopalpur, Moyna and Nandakumar.

Source: The Telegraph January 24, 2026 00:38 UTC