Overview
- Final rolls published on February 28 show the electorate falling from about 7.66 crore to roughly 7.04 crore after the Special Intensive Revision.
- About 60.06 lakh electors are marked under adjudication, with around 500 judicial officers assigned to decide their status before supplementary lists are issued.
- Cases awaiting review are heaviest in Muslim-majority and border districts, including approximately 11 lakh in Murshidabad and about 8 lakh in Malda, with large totals also in North and South 24 Parganas.
- Mamata Banerjee accuses the Election Commission and BJP of collusion, plans a March 6 sit-in, and highlights large deletions in her Bhabanipur seat where roughly 47,000 names were struck off and about 14,000 are under adjudication.
- BJP leaders hail the exercise as the removal of ‘infiltrators’, launch the Parivartan Yatra, and press the citizenship and border-security narrative as the adjudication phase continues.