4.98 lakh voters did not show up for SIR hearings, 1.63 lakh ‘ineligible’ electors flagged: West Bengal CEO

Key Highlights

• This comes on the day (February 14) that the SIR hearings were formally completed in the State after a seven-day extension given by the Election Commission (EC).
• “For the people whose names are in the draft roll but their names did not feature in the final roll, they will all get an order.
• Then, they will have a chance to make an appeal to the District Election Officer, and then to the CEO.
• They can always get their names back [on the rolls] if they were removed due to errors,” Manoj Kumar Agarwal, West Bengal CEO, said.
• He added that all SIR hearings have been officially completed in West Bengal within the extended deadline.