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The West Bengal CEO is holding two important internal meetings this week before attending a national meeting with the Chief Election Commissioner. These meetings will assess the state's preparedness for implementing the special intensive voter revision process. The ruling Trinamool Congress has been opposing this revision, calling it a backdoor for NRC and CAA implementation. Meanwhile, the BJP claims the opposition stems from fears that illegal immigrants' names would be removed from voter lists.

Key Points: Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal Holds Key Meetings Before CEC Delhi Summit

  • Bengal CEO to meet top officials on September 6 for revision assessment
  • District magistrates to attend crucial September 8 meeting in Kolkata
  • Meetings prepare Bengal's input for CEC's national revision summit
  • Special intensive revision last conducted in Bengal in 2002
  • Mamata Banerjee opposes revision calling it NRC-CAA backdoor
  • BJP claims TMC fears deletion of illegal immigrant names
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Bengal CEO to hold two key meetings in Kolkata on Sep 6 and Sep 8

West Bengal CEO holds internal meetings on Sep 6-8 to assess readiness for special intensive voter revision ahead of crucial Delhi meeting with CEC Gyanesh Kumar.

"“From these two meetings, the CEO will have a clear idea of how far West Bengal is ready to implement special intensive revision” - CEO office insider"

Kolkata, Sep 5

The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal will hold two crucial internal meetings in Kolkata on September 6 and September 8 in Kolkata, before the crucial meeting in Delhi convened next week by office of the office of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar with the CEOs of all states.

The main agenda of the meeting next week between the CEC and the CEOs of all states will be to discuss the implementation of the special intensive revision (SIR) in all states, the process of which has already been completed in Bihar.

CEO office insiders said that the meeting on September 6, to be convened by Agarwal, will be attended by the other top officials from the CEO office.

On September 8, the meeting will be attended by all district magistrates, who are the district electoral officers.

“From these two meetings, the CEO will have a clear idea of how far West Bengal is ready to implement special intensive revision in the state, Based on these two meetings, the CEO, West Bengal, will give inputs at the meeting next week convened in Delhi by the CEC,” an insider from the CEO's office said.

The ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal and the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had been opposing the special intensive revision in West Bengal.

According to her, the real intention behind special intensive revision was actually aimed at slapping the NRC and CAA in West Bengal.

On the other hand, the BJP had claimed that Trinamool Congress and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee were opposing the special intensive revision of fear that names of many illegal Rohingya and Bangladeshi infiltrators would be deleted from the list following the revision exercise.

The last time that a special intensive revision was conducted in West Bengal was in 2002.

During the current year, the special intensive revision process has been completed recently in neighbouring Bihar, where the polls are scheduled this year.

- IANS

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Priya S
Why is Mamata Banerjee opposing this? Every state should have clean voter lists. Bihar has already done it successfully. This is about election integrity, not politics.
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Aman W
Hope they conduct this revision fairly without targeting any particular community. Electoral process should be transparent and inclusive for all citizens.
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Sarah B
As someone living in Kolkata, I just want the process to be smooth. Last time there was so much confusion during voter ID verification. Hope they learn from Bihar's experience.
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Vikram M
Both sides are playing politics with this issue. The reality is that voter list revision is a routine administrative process that happens in every democracy. Why make it controversial?
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Nikhil C
The timing is suspicious though. Why now? And why only certain states? The Election Commission should ensure uniform implementation across all states without political pressure.

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