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West Bengal SIR: EC flags 30 booths for major voter data mismatches; orders statewide progeny mapping

Kolkata, Dec 4 (UNI) The Election Commission has primarily identified 30 booths across 30 assembly constituencies where widespread discrepancies in parental information have been detected in the 2025 electoral rolls, prompting an urgent order for progeny mapping at all polling booths.
The anomalies involve voters absent from the 2002 rolls but linked to parents whose names do not match the 2025 entries. The scale of errors potentially affecting up to 30 lakh voters has pushed the poll panel to deploy booth-level officers (BLOs) for immediate verification, with reports due within seven days. The irregularities came to light after the IT team at Nirvachan Sadan analysed enumeration forms uploaded for Bengal’s 7.66 crore voters.
The team alerted State Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Agarwal, whose office conducted sample checks and confirmed that mismatches were not isolated but widespread. This triggered instructions for booth-wise progeny mapping across the state to ensure error-free rolls ahead of the Assembly elections.
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