Bengal cut-off clock ticks: On the edge of exclusion, appeals hang

I, Abdul Tahid SK, the Appellant, am a bona fide citizen of India by birth... and 1am fully eligible to be enrolled as a voter.”

- SUBHENDU MAITI @Kolkata

With this assertion, Abdul Tahid Sheikh, a sexagenarian resident of Jadupur Pojadupur village, Berhampore in Murshidabad, more than 200 km away from Kolkata, began his online appeal to the Appellate Tribunal on April 11, seeking restoration of his name to the electoral roll.He stated that his name had been duly recorded in earlier electoral rolls—including the 2002 list (SIR List SL No. 394) and the 1995 roll (SL No. 395). He cited his family’s electoral history: his father, Jamirudd