12 lakhs in Bengal’s second supplementary list, but no clarity on who made the cut. india news
Kolkata: West Bengal’s second supplementary voter list was published around 11 pm on Friday night, although there is little clarity on how many of the 12 lakh names included in it have cleared the judicial scrutiny.as it happened then Election Commission When the first supplementary roll was released around midnight last Monday, CEO Manoj Aggarwal had more questions than answers. “About 37 lakh of the 60 lakh pending cases have been disposed of so far. After receiving the list from Calcutta HC, it will take 4-6 hours for the Election Commission to process it and upload it on our server,” he said in the afternoon.
The list can be viewed on voter.eci.gov.in, ceowest bengal.wb.gov.in and ECINET app. Copies will be displayed at polling stations and available with District Election Officers, DMs, SDOs and BDOs. Those who did not make the cut can appeal online or offline before the Appellate Tribunal within 15 days. Another list is scheduled to be published on April 3.Election Commission sources said that of those whose documents were examined by judicial officers, 35-40% were disenfranchised.cm Mamata BanerjeeTMC on Friday filed an appeal before Calcutta HC CJ Sujoy Paul, seeking daily publication of supplementary lists. The party said the first list contained only 749,863 names, although judicial authorities had disposed of 27 lakh cases by then. It said that there is no information about the remaining 20 lakh names.It also reported that 11 of its election candidates were still in the dark about their voter status under the decision. This marked the narrow window for disposal of appeals against exclusion, referring to the April 7 deadline to “lock” the voter lists for the 152 constituencies going to polls in the first phase.On Friday, CJ Paul chaired a meeting on the publication of the second supplementary list with Chief Secretary Dushyant Nariyala, Home Secretary Sanghamitra Ghosh, DGP SN Gupta, Kolkata Police Commissioner Ajay Nand, CEO Agarwal and Special Role Supervisor Subrata Gupta.
