Kolkata, Jan. 10 -- Even as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gynesh Kumar alleging harassment of common citizens in the name of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has announced the appointment of four more Special Observers in West Bengal to bring greater transparency to the process.
With the latest decision, the total number of Special Observers overseeing the SIR exercise in the state has gone up to five.
Earlier, the Commission had appointed Subrata Gupta as the Special Observer for monitoring the revision process. He will now be joined by four additional officers.
According to Commission sources, three of the newly appointed observers are ...