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Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajya Sabha MP Samirul Islam on Monday (September 14, 2026) urged the Election Commission to expedite redressal of grievances of voters whose names were deleted during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, so that no eligible elector is denied the right to vote in the upcoming Assembly bypolls. Nearly 25 lakh appeals have been filed before SIR tribunals over deletion of names from the voter list.

In a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Mr. Islam said thousands of voters in the bypoll-bound Rejinagar and Nandigram constituencies were awaiting decisions on their appeals. The byelection for the two seats will be held on October 6, with counting scheduled for October 9.

Mr. Islam urged the EC, the Chief Electoral Officer and Electoral Registration Officers to immediately address the grievances of voters whose names were deleted during the SIR exercise.

“Among them are thousands from Rejinagar and Nandigram alone, still awaiting a decision on their appeals,” he said in the letter. The Trinamool Congress MP said the affected voters had already been deprived of their right to vote during the Assembly elections held in April this year. “Allowing the situation to continue,” he added, would result in their being denied the right to vote again.

Mr. Islam also asked the poll panel to calculate the time required to dispose of the pending appeals at the current rate and approach the Supreme Court for necessary modifications to the procedure, if required. He said the law provides for appeals against orders relating to electoral registration.

Many of the deleted voters have either already filed appeals or are in the process of doing so, while some are registering their names afresh, the MP claimed.

“Ensuring this would be far more than an administrative measure; it would be a reaffirmation of the constitutional promise of universal adult suffrage, the sanctity of the franchise and the inclusive democratic character of our Republic,” Mr. Islam said.

Published – September 14, 2026 05:49 pm IST



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In West Bengal, the stakes are high for both the ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP.

New Delhi:
Of the 13 constituencies, four are in West Bengal and three in Himachal, where the Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu-led Congress government has survived removal attempts.

Here Are 10 Points In This Developing Story:

  1. Bypolls to 13 Assembly constituencies in seven states are being held today, the first since the Lok Sabha elections, which saw the BJP falling short of a majority and the opposition gaining strength. The BJP won 240 seats and the INDIA alliance clinched 232, with the Congress emerging as its biggest constituent, with wins in 99 constituencies.

  2. The Assembly seats going to polls are Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagda and Maniktala in West Bengal; Dehra, Hamirpur and Nalagarh in Himachal Pradesh; Badrinath and Manglaur in Uttarakhand; Jalandhar West in Punjab; Rupauli in Bihar; Vikravandi in Tamil Nadu and Amarwara in Madhya Pradesh. Four of these states are ruled by INDIA constituents while the rest have a BJP or NDA government.

  3. The electoral exercise will decide the fate of many veterans and some debutants, including Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur from the Dehra constituency.

  4. The Sukhu government in Himachal Pradesh has survived removal attempts and won bypolls in four out of six Assembly seats which were held with the Lok Sabha elections. Six Congress MLAs and three Independents had cross-voted in favour of the BJP nominee in the Rajya Sabha elections.

  5. The Congress MLAs were disqualified and bypolls were held on those six seats earlier. The Independents resigned and joined the BJP and elections for their seats are being held on Wednesday.

  6. “Vote for the Chief Minister and not the MLA. Now, Dehra will also become the constituency of the Chief Minister… I will not need to go to the Secretariat to get your work done, I will get it done from the chief minister at home,” Kamlesh Thakur told people while seeking votes.

  7. In West Bengal, the stakes are high for both the ruling Trinamool Congress – which beat all expectations and improved its tally in the Lok Sabha polls to 29 of the state’s 42 seats, up from 21 in 2019 – and the BJP, whose figure went down from 18 to 12.

  8. The Trinamool won the Maniktala seat in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections while the BJP won Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin and Bagda. Later, the BJP MLAs switched to the Trinamool. The Maniktala bypoll has been necessitated by the death of sitting Trinamool MLA Sadhan Pandey in February 2022.

  9. Uttarakhand’s Manglaur constituency will witness a three-cornered fight in the bypoll, which is being held after the death of BSP MLA Sarwat Karim Ansari in October last year. The BJP has never won the Muslim- and Dalit-dominated Manglaur seat which has been held either by the Congress or the BSP so far. In the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had won all five seats.

  10. In Punjab, the bypoll in the Jalandhar West assembly segment is being seen as a litmus test for Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. The AAP won only three of the state’s 13 seats in the Lok Sabha elections.



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