A delegation of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) visited the office of the State’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal on Thursday (October 16, 2025) and submitted a memorandum with demands for modification of the process of the impending Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls.
The memorandum listed out 16-point demands like the inclusion of electoral rolls since 2002 till that of the Assembly election in 2021 as probative evidence of eligibility and citizenship of a voter if a large population of electors cannot be mapped in the 2002 voters’ list.
For context, the last SIR of the voters’ list in West Bengal was conducted in 2002, and during the recent SIR in Bihar, the electoral list of its last SIR in 2003 was used as a reference point for the submission of identification documents for the SIR of 2025.
“The convoluted exercise of deleting the names of existing electors for non-submission of enumeration forms within 30 days and then requiring them to fill Form 6 for re-enrollment as a new elector within the next 30 days (claims and objections period), needs to be discontinued. This is a significant flaw in the existing SIR 2025 process,” the WBPCC memorandum also stated as one of its demands.
