Bengal SIR: Congress candidate restored as voter after EC fails to provide reason for deletion
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The Appellate Tribunal set up in Kolkata, to hear applications of those deleted from West Bengal’s voter lists, on Sunday restored the name of Motab Shaikh, the Congress candidate from Farakka for the upcoming Assembly elections, reported The Indian Express.
Shaikh’s is the first case to be decided by the tribunal.
In his order, TS Sivagnanam, a retired chief justice of the Calcutta High Court, noted that the Election Commission had cited “technical reasons” for not providing the circumstances leading to Shaikh’s name being deleted during the adjudication process, reported the newspaper.
This came days ahead of the assembly elections in West Bengal, which will be held in two phases on April 23 and April 29. The results will be announced on May 4.
West Bengal is also among the 12 states and Union Territories where the special intensive revision of the electoral roll was undertaken.
On February 28, the Election Commission published the final electoral roll for West Bengal, showing that more than 61 lakh voters had been excluded.
However, the process continued with about 60 lakh “doubtful and pending” cases remaining under adjudication based on their objections to their exclusions from the draft rolls published in December.
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