Polling officers barred from voting in West Bengal election

During the West Bengal state assembly elections, 65 government employees assigned as presiding and polling officers discovered that their names had been deleted from the electoral rolls, preventing them from voting. The officials had been verified through their EPIC voter IDs for election duty, yet were denied the right to cast a ballot. The Supreme Court of India refused to hear their plea and directed them to seek redress from election tribunals. The deletions are linked to the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process of updating voter lists. The incident has raised concerns about administrative errors affecting election staff in Kolkata and across the state.