West Bengal cross – The number of ‘undesirable’ enumeration forms of dead, duplicate, absent and transferred voters has crossed 57. 5 lakh in West Bengal, a day before the counting phase of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision ends tomorrow, December 11, 2025, according to sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal. Of them, based on data from undelivered enumeration forms in the state, more than 24 lakh voters have been identified as dead as of Wednesday (December 10, 2025).

CEO Manoj Kumar Agarwal on Wednesday met the Special Roll Observers (SROs) recently appointed in West Bengal by the Election Commission, and directed them to thoroughly scrutinize the entries before the publication of the final draft voter list before the counting phase ends tomorrow. This includes instructions to election officials and SROs to check child voters linking themselves to voters in the 2002 list and to check the age difference between two voters claiming to be related as parents and children. The commission on Monday (December 8, 2025) decided to monitor the ongoing SIR in various divisions of West Bengal and “ensure that no eligible person is left out of enrollment and no ineligible voter is included in the electoral roll.

” The draft voter list is to be made public on December 16.