India, Feb. 4 -- The Election Commission (EC) said on Wednesday that around one million hearings for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal are pending and that the process is likely to be completed within the deadline of February 7.

Earlier in the day, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the state had stated that nearly 6.3 million hearings were pending in West Bengal and that it was almost impossible to complete the process in the next four days.

"The total number of voters who have been called for hearings in the state is around 15 million. This includes unmapped voters and those with logical discrepancies. Only around one million hearings were pending till Wednesday," West Bengal's chief electoral officer Man...