After the SIR, the state's draft voter list will be published on December 16. According to sources, a large number of voters' names are set to be dropped. A day before the list is published on December 16, this list is already visible on Monday itself. However, ordinary voters will not be able to see this list. Only BLOs can see it. From Monday morning, the draft voter list has appeared on the BLO app. On this day, the voter lists for Bengal's 80,681 booths have been published on the BLO app. However, a BLO can only see the voter list for his booth.
Swapan Mandal, General Secretary of the Election Workers and BLO Unity Forum, informed that those whose names were supposed to be removed from the voter list (dead, permanently transferred, fake and absent voters) have all been directly dropped from the list. Besides, he claimed, "We saw today that more than 59 lakh names have been directly dropped.
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Those whom the BLOs had identified as dead, permanently transferred, fake and absent voters." According to sources from the state CEO office, so far in the preliminary stage, 59 lakh voters' names are being dropped (dead, permanently transferred, fake and absent).
It's not just that 59 lakh voters' names are set to be dropped. So far, nearly 30 lakh voters' names have not been traced in the mapping. They will be called for hearing. On the other hand, according to the information that has come to the Commission regarding the 'Logical Discrepancies' list, various problems have also arisen in the case of 1 crore 76 lakh voters.
As a result, they will also be called for hearing. Only after all these calculations are completed will it be known how many voters in total will be on the exclusion list. Therefore, it cannot be clearly stated right now how many voters will ultimately be dropped.
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The Commission will officially publish the state's draft voter list on Tuesday. The Commission has announced that a voter will be able to see this list at- local booth, local panchayat office, local municipality, sub-divisional magistrate's office, district magistrate's office, BDO office, DEO website, CEO website, ECINet app and Voters Service Portal.
How will you check if your name is there?
By entering the voters.eci.gov.in website and going to the 'SIR FINAL PUBLICATION 2025' section and clicking on 'SEARCH YOUR NAME IN DRAFT ROLL', you will need to provide your state name and EPIC number. And then you will be able to see your name in the draft voter list.
