Overview
- The Supreme Court, which on Monday said fresh interlocutory applications could be filed, invited detailed seat‑wise pleas on claims that voter deletions may have altered results.
- The Trinamool Congress told the bench that in 31 constituencies the number of voters deleted during the Special Intensive Revision topped the victory margin, citing Jangipara where a loss by 862 votes followed more than 5,000 deletions.
- Petitioners said about 3.5 million appeals against deletions remain pending before 19 appellate tribunals, and senior advocate Menaka Guruswamy warned the current pace could take about four years to clear.
- The Election Commission opposed using the current writ cases to test results and said the proper route is election petitions, pointing to high‑deletion seats in Malda and Murshidabad that the TMC still won.
- The voter‑roll revision removed nearly nine million names to weed out duplicates and ineligible entries, and the bench said speeding up appeals is a priority after tribunal member T. S. Sivagnanam resigned.