“Triple violation. Institutional sabotage. Constitutional betrayal. Bengal will answer.”
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It has come to our notice that EROs are no longer able to monitor the progress of AEROs on the ECINet portal with respect to the conduct of SIR in Bengal. This amounts to a TRIPLE VIOLATION.
FIRST, it violates Section 13B of the Representation of the People Act, which states that electoral rolls “shall be prepared and revised by an electoral registration officer." It also violates Section 13C of the Act, which states that AEROs are to “assist any electoral registration officer in the performance of his functions” and that they are “subject to the control of the electoral registration officer.”
SECOND, it violates the explicit intent of the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s order dated 9 February, 2026, Section 6(V) of which states in no uncertain terms that “the final decision will be taken by the EROs only.” It also violates Section 2 of the Supreme Court’s order dated 20 February 2026, which states that, under the Logical Discrepancy/Unmapped category, persons to whom notices were issued have submitted documents in support of their claims for inclusion in the voter list. “These claims are required to be adjudicated, in a way, through a quasi-judicial process by the EROs.”
THIRD, it violates the Election Commission’s own Order No. 23/2025-ERS (Vol. II) dated 24th June 2025, Point No. 2 of which clearly states that “the ERO of each Assembly Constituency shall be responsible for ensuring that no eligible citizen is left out and no ineligible person is included.”
This TRIPLE VIOLATION strikes at the very heart of constitutional governance by dismantling institutional checks and balances, creating fertile ground for ARBITRARY and UNLAWFUL DELETION of voters at the discretion of AEROs.
What is even more alarming is that when this serious anomaly was escalated to the Chief Electoral Officer, West Bengal, through the District Election Officers, it was met with a cavalier and dismissive response wholly unbecoming of a constitutional office. This is precisely the entrenched BABU CULTURE that has come to characterise the Election Commission’s functioning, and stood implicitly rebuked by the Supreme Court only yesterday.
Nobody, I repeat NOBODY, has the authority to play God with the democratic rights of Bengal’s voters. The BANGLA-BIRODHI ZAMINDARS who believe they can pull the strings and orchestrate a voter deletion racket must understand that they will be held accountable, both in the court of law and in the court of the people.
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