The ailing and elderly continued to queue up outside SIR hearing camps across the city, walking with support or being bodily lifted into centres, even as the Election Commission said on Monday that hearings for such voters would be conducted at their homes. A BLO told Metro on Tuesday evening that they had yet to receive any written instructions regarding home hearings. Swati Roy, 70, had to report to a hearing centre in Mukundapur despite suffering a recent fracture in her spinal cord. At the Mukundapur centre, 85-year-old Sankar Sarkar struggled to walk as his son, Mangal Sarkar, 45, helped him into and out of the hearing room. Long queues were seen outside a hearing centre where hearings for seven parts of the Jadavpur Assembly constituency were being conducted.

Source: The Telegraph December 31, 2025 02:33 UTC