New Delhi/Kolkata, April 29 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday published a supplementary voter list for West Bengal's second and final phase of assembly elections, adding 1,468 names cleared by Supreme Court-mandated appellate tribunals and deleting six names. The 19 tribunals - set up on March 20 after an order of the apex court - considered close to 1,500 cases for the second phase of polls and cleared 1,468 applications while ordering the deletion of six names. For the first phase of elections on April 23, the tribunals had cleared 139 names while considering 657 applications. This means that nearly all of the 2.71 million people flagged under a controversial logical discrepancy category in the special intensive revision stand disenfranchised without any hearing before the tribunals. Their applications were rejected in the first stage of logical discrepancy adjudication by judicial officers but there was no time for a hearing before the tribunals - each of which is headed by a former high court judge or chief justice - because the forums took too long to become functional. "Names of 1,468 voters, which were earlier deleted from the electoral roll by judicial officers after the adjudication process, have been cleared by the tribunals appointed by the apex court. These voters will be allowed to vote on Wednesday when 142 assembly seats go to polls. Six names have been deleted," said an ECI official. The development comes a day before the crucial second phase of the assembly elections when 142 seats across seven districts in southern Bengal, considered a bastion of the ruling Trinamool Congress, go to the polls. In the 2021 polls, the TMC won 123 of these seats and the Bharatiya Janata Party won 19. The results will be announced on May 4. The BJP is hoping to deny chief minister Mamata Banerjee - whose seat of Bhabanipur is also going to the polls on Wednesday - a fourth straight term. Of the 2.71 million voters flagged under the logical discrepancy category over issues such as mismatch in name, spelling errors and mapping to parents, only 1,609 names were restored across the entire election cycle: two before the nomination deadline, 139 before Phase 1 on April 23, and 1,468 before Phase 2 on April 29. The restored names represent just 0.006% of the 2.7 million eligible for tribunal appeals. "Voters whose names were deleted by judicial officers can continue to approach the appellate tribunals, and if their names are cleared after Monday, they will be included in a future voter list - though not for this election cycle. Once the Model Code of Conduct is lifted, the electoral roll will be reopened for revision and names cleared by tribunals will be restored," said chief electoral officer Manoj Kr Agarwal. The TMC said that the "inclusion of over 1,600 people and deletion of a small number shows the kind of work the ECI has done". "The restoration figure itself is the example of the mess created by the ECI," said TMC MP Sushmita Dev. "This is nothing against the lakhs and lakhs of people who have been deprived of their right to vote." The BJP, meanwhile, said the tribunals have worked extensively and that the TMC has "no right to speak on voter inclusion or deletion". "We have found that TMC filled Hindu names through Form 6 to achieve two things - first, to create fear among specific tribal and other communities that their votes are being deleted, making them believe Hindus will not vote for TMC, and second, to create a negative narrative against the SIR process and the BJP that Hindus are being targeted," said spokesperson Debjit Sarkar....