Rush Hour: 1,468 voters added before Bengal polls, Sisodia won’t appear before Justice Sharma & more

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Appellate tribunals set up as part of the special intensive revision process in West Bengal allowed 1,468 names to be added back to the electoral rolls, a day ahead of the second phase of the state Assembly election. These electors will be able to vote on Wednesday.

It is unclear how many cases could be heard by the tribunals before the polling begins for the second phase of West Bengal elections. Earlier, the Election Commission had said that the 19 appellate tribunals had received 34 lakh applications. Of these, seven lakh were against names being included in the rolls and 27 lakh were filed by persons who were excluded. Read on.

Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia said that he too “will not participate” personally or through a lawyer before a Delhi High Court bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma. The judge is hearing the Central Bureau of Investigation’s challenge to him and several others being discharged in the liquor policy case.

This came a day after party chief Arvind Kejriwal said that he would not appear before Sharma....

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