Overview
- The Election Commission uploaded the first supplementary, booth‑wise lists around 11:45–11:55 pm Monday, reflecting rulings on about 29 lakh of the 60 lakh voter records flagged under a Special Intensive Revision of the rolls.
- The West Bengal chief electoral officer gave no breakdown of who was kept or dropped, saying he did not know the number of approvals or rejections when the lists went live.
- Many users struggled to download the lists Tuesday, and hard copies had not reached several local offices, leaving people who were under review unsure whether they can vote.
- The Supreme Court asked the poll body to prioritize candidates contesting in the first phase and to move fast on appellate tribunals, with roughly 31 lakh adjudications still pending before the April 23 and 29 polling dates.
- Trust questions deepened after Kerala’s election office circulated an ECI letter bearing a BJP seal, which the office called a clerical error and for which an assistant was suspended, as Mamata Banerjee accused the Commission of bias.