Kolkata: The Election Commission has appointed five nodal officers to supervise the First Level Checking (FLC) of EVMs ahead of the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections.
The five officers are Shania Kayem Mize, Deputy Chief Electoral Officer of Arunachal Pradesh; Yogesh Gosavi, Deputy CEO of Maharashtra; P.K. Boro, Additional CEO of Meghalaya; Ethel Rothangpuii, Joint CEO of Mizoram; and Kanishka Kumar, Under Secretary of the Election Commission of India.
The officers have been appointed as observers at different FLC venues across the state. The Election Commission deploys officials from other states for key stages of the election process.
The Commission has introduced new rules under which the image of each candidate will be displayed on the EVM.
This will give voters clearer information at the time of polling.
West Bengal had over 80,000 polling booths during the 2021 assembly election. This is expected to rise by more than 10,000 after the ongoing enumeration exercise.
