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Bengal SIR row: SC, ST activists urge ECI to simplify rules, set up assistance camps

Published - December 07, 2025 01:40 am IST - KOLKATA Mrityunjoy Mallick and other activists of the Scheduled Caste Federation at the office of the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal in Kolkata on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Moyurie Som Representatives of marginalised communities appealed to State election officials for the simplification of rules of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls for around people belonging to scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, Matua and other deprived communities who are at risk of losing their electoral rights for the lack of identification documents. “The scheduled caste vote in the State is roughly 34%.

Bengal SIR row: SC, ST activists urge ECI to simplify rules, set up assistance camps

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Key Highlights

  • Of them, there are over a hundred sub-castes.
  • Nearly 30 to 40 lakh people from marginalised communities, we believe, will be unable to produce any documents to prove their rights as electors.
  • So we have appealed to the Governor and to the election officials to simplify the rules of SIR for these communities,” Mrityunjoy Mallick, national president of the Scheduled Caste Federation, said at the office of the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal in Kolkata on Saturday (December 6, 2025).
  • He added that they came to demand the protection of the rights of marginalised people on Mahaparinirvan Diwas, observed on December 6 every year for the death anniversary of Dr B. R.
  • Ambedkar.
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