The Election Commission of India (ECI) wants people to vote in the area where they reside and is urging to get their names shifted if they do not. Neither is it an ideal situation if many residents of an area have no voting right to decide the local representative. A total of 44,934 names have not made it to the draft publication of electoral rolls for 116 Bidhannagar Assembly constituency. The figure includes dead and shifted voters. Of the 2,02,370 voters who were handed forms by the booth level officials (BLO), 38,213 names could not be mapped.

Source: The Telegraph January 02, 2026 00:08 UTC