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SIR: ECI reviewing Suvendu’s protocol violation complaint against 3 district magistrates
The Statesman Bhubaneswar
|November 23, 2025
The Election Commission of India (ECI) is reviewing complaints received from the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, against three District Magistrates, who are also the District Election Officers (DEOs), claiming that they were not following the poll panel's protocols for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.
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The three District Magistrates against whom Adhikari had registered complaints to the ECI are from his native district of East Midnapore, besides those of Hooghly and East Burdwan.
Adhikari confirmed that he had registered the complaints against the three District Magistrates with the central ECI team, who visited West Bengal to review the progress of the ongoing SIR exercise in the state.
This story is from the November 23, 2025 edition of The Statesman Bhubaneswar.
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