India, Oct. 28 -- Chief electoral officer (CEO) of West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, on Tuesday assured that no names of genuine voters will be dropped from the electoral roll even as the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) took off in the state.

Agarwal also flagged the sluggish rate of appointment of booth level agents by political parties in the state. Even though booth level officers (BLOs) have been appointed for all the 80,000 odd booths in the state, only around 18,000 Booth Level Agents have been appointed by political parties.

"I would like to assure you that not a single legitimate voter's name would be excluded from the list. We are hopeful that it would be a 100 percent fair voter list," Agarwal told media persons in Kolkata. ...