Representatives of marginalised groups in West Bengal have appealed to election officials to simplify rules in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Around 30 to 40 lakh people from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Matua, and other deprived communities risk losing their voting rights because they lack identification documents. Mrityunjoy Mallick, national president of the Scheduled Caste Federation, said on December 6, 2025, at the Chief Electoral Officer's office in Kolkata, "The scheduled caste vote in the State is roughly 34%. Of them, there are over a hundred sub-castes. Nearly 30 to 40 lakh people from marginalised communities, we believe, will be unable to produce any documents to prove their rights as electors." The group also appealed for the rules to allow linking voters to any relative in the 2002 electoral roll, not just parents, to ensure voting rights. Mr Mallick said, "We have demanded that for marginalised people, if any familial connection through grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc, is found in the 2002 list, their electoral rights be protected as long as they are alive." He highlighted challenges faced by forest-dwelling Adivasis, Rajbanshis, the nomadic Bede community, sanitation and cremation workers, who often lack required documents or birth certificates. The letter to the Chief Election Commissioner also called for camps to issue caste certificates, domicile certificates, and other IDs to help these voters. Special attention was requested for married women with changed surnames and those displaced by embankment breaches across West Bengal. "There have been various instances of displacement and socioeconomic deprivations that have led to people from marginalised communities not possessing or losing their identity documents," Mr Mallick explained. He stressed that voters who have cast ballots between 2002 and 2025 must have their rights protected. As of December 6, 2025, 99.43% of forms from 7.66 crore electors were collected and digitised, while 'uncollectable' forms for dead, shifted, or duplicate voters crossed 55 lakh.