Stay updated with the latest chief-election-commissioner-of-india news, articles, and insights from trusted sources. Explore in-depth coverage and expert analysis on chief-election-commissioner-of-india topics.
NEW DELHI, Oct 27: The Election Commission will conduct phase two of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in 12 states and Union Territories between November and February, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar announced on Monday. The states and Union Territories are: the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Among these, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, and ...Read More >
Purnea (Bihar) [India], October 27 (ANI: Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor on Monday took a swipe at the BJP-led central government over the EC's announcement of the 2nd phase of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across 12 States and Union Territories. He said that no matter what the BJP does, once the public turns against a party, it cannot be saved. "SIR was done in Bihar. What difference did it make? Was anyone's name struck off? A few people did face difficulties. BJP can ...Read More >
Gyanesh Kumar further added that Aadhaar Card is not a proof of date of birth or domicile.Source : jorono/Pixabay Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Monday announced that the Election Commission will undertake a pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists in 12 states and union territories. "...The voter lists in all states undergoing SIR will be frozen at 12 am tonight. BLOs will distribute Unique Enumeration Forms to all voters on these lists. These forms will contain ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 27 (ANI): Congress leader Pramod Tiwari on Monday questioned the Election Commission of India's (ECI) announcement for the second phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in 12 States and Union Territories, asking for the number of "infiltrators" removed from the electoral roll in the first phase in Bihar. Speaking to ANI, Tiwari said, "From the Home Minister to the Prime Minister, they were talking about infiltrators, but did the Election Commission say how many ...Read More >
Kolkata (PTI): The West Bengal government on Monday announced the transfer of over 500 bureaucrats amid the rollout of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state. In one of the largest reshuffles on a single day, 67 IAS and 460 West Bengal Civil Services (Executive) officers were transferred, according to a slew of notifications issued by the Personnel and Administrative Reforms (P&AR) Department. The transfer notifications were dated October 24, even as they were upl ...Read More >
New Delhi (PTI): Soon after the Election Commission on Monday announced holding Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in 12 states, the Congress questioned the exercise, and said the poll body's intentions and credibility were under suspicion as neither the voters nor the opposition were satisfied with it. In a video message posted on X, Congress' media and publicity head Pawan Khera said, "We have not yet received answers to the questions related to the SIR conducted in Bihar. The situ ...Read More >
The voter list of all those states where SIR will be done will be frozen at 12 am tonight. All voters on that list will be given Unique Enumeration Forms by the BLOs. These forms will have all the necessary details from the current voter list, says Kumar. The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday announced to carry out pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters' list, with 12 states and union territories to be covered in phase one. While addressing a press conference, Chief El ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 27 (PTI) Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Monday said separate provisions of the Citizenship Act apply in Assam, and a special order will be issued for the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in the state. Assam did not figure in the list of 12 states and Union Territories where the electoral roll clean-up exercise has been announced from November 4. Addressing a press conference here, Kumar said a Supreme Court-supervised exercise to verify citizenship is ...Read More >
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Monday shared a detailed blueprint of Phase II of the nationwide rollout of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), an exercise for the verification of electoral rolls. However, he dodged a direct answer on the drive facing stiff opposition from political parties, with a couple of them resisting it tooth and nail. CEC Gyanesh Kumar, replying to an IANS question on 'politicisation' of the voter verification drive in Bihar, said that the ...Read More >
Mumbai, October 27: The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced a pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, with the second phase set to kick off from Tuesday, October 28, in 12 states and Union Territories (UTs), including many poll-bound states such as West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. But what raised eyebrows was the exclusion of Assam, where elections are due by April 2026. Since then, many have been wondering why Assam was not included in the list of states gearing up fo ...Read More >
Mumbai, October 27: The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced a pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, with the second phase set to kick off from Tuesday, October 28, in 12 states and Union Territories (UTs), including many poll-bound states such as West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. But what raised eyebrows was the exclusion of Assam, where elections are due by April 2026. Since then, many have been wondering why Assam was not included in the list of states gearing up fo ...Read More >
New Delhi: After Bihar, a nationwide SIR has been announced. The second phase of voter list revision is also set to begin soon. This phase will be for those states and union territories where assembly elections are scheduled in 2026, 2027, and 2028. The second phase of SIR will be conducted in 12 states and union territories. The Election Commission has also released the schedule for this. For this, the staff will first be trained. Then, starting December 4th, door-to-door polling will be condu ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 27 (PTI) The Election Commission will conduct phase two of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in 12 states and Union Territories between November and February, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar announced on Monday. The states and Union Territories are: the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Among these, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala ...Read More >
New Delhi, October 27: The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar announced a Pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) during the Election Commission of India's press conference on Monday. He stated that the SIR exercise will be carried out in 12 states as part of the second phase of the nationwide voter list verification drive. The surprising part of the announcement was that Assam and Mumbai were excluded from the list, even though major elections are scheduled to take place there ...Read More >
Patna (Bihar) [India], October 27 (ANI): RJD leader Mrityunjay Tiwari on Monday said that his party had no objection to the Election Commission of India's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls but urged the poll body to ensure that the exercise is conducted fairly and without bias. "There is no objection to the SIR. However, it is not right to steal votes through SIR or to deprive any citizen of the country of their right to vote. During the Bihar SIR, many irregularities were obs ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 27 (ANI): Congress MP Pramod Tiwari on Monday said the Opposition would be vigilant in protecting the voting rights of marginalised communities as the Election Commission is set to conduct a nationwide Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists. "All leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, had set out to defend the Constitution. At that time of the Lok Sabha elections, the intention was to cut the votes of the Scheduled Castes, minorities, the poor, and the backward cla ...Read More >
As part of its commitment to uphold democratic integrity, the Election Commission is set to launch an extensive revision of the national voter rolls. This initiative will analyze and synchronize current registrants with prior records, ensuring precision in the electoral process. Ramping up its preparations for special intensive revision of voter lists across India, the Election Commission top brass on Wednesday assessed the progress made on mapping the current electors with the voters as per th ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India has instructed all the Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) of the states and the Union Territories to finalise their preparations for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in their respective states/UTs at the earliest and report back to it, officials said on Thursday. The instructions were passed on to them during a two-day conference of the CEOs here, which concluded on Thursday, and during the course of discussions, the presentations were given by senio ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday directed the Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) to finalize their preparations for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in their respective States and Union Territories (UTs). The poll panel issued the directives on the concluding day of the two-day conference of the CEOs at the India International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Management (IIIDEM) here. The conference was presided over by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kum ...Read More >
A two-day conference for Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs), organised by the Election Commission of India (ECI), began today at the India International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Management (IIIDEM) in New Delhi. R.S. Gopalan, IAS, the Chief Electoral Officer of Odisha, attended the conference alongside Additional Chief Electoral Officer Sushant Mishra and Deputy Chief Electoral Officer Dr. Laxmi Prasad Sahu. The conference was inaugurated under the chairmanship of Chief Election Commi ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday reviewed the preparedness for the nationwide Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The preparation for the SIR has been reviewed during the two-day conference of Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) of the States and Union Territories (UTs), which kicked off here on Wednesday. The conference was presided over by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, in the presence of Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi at the In ...Read More >
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has formally withdrawn the schedule for Punjab's local government elections, confirming The Express Tribune's earlier report that the passage of the Punjab Local Government Act 2025 would once again derail grassroots democracy in the province. In a meeting chaired by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja, the ECP reviewed the situation arising from the new law's enactment. Members of the commission, along with the secretary and senior ...Read More >
In a compassionate response to the tragic stampede in Karur, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam has allocated twenty lakh rupees to assist affected families. This crucial action follows Chief Minister MK Stalin's earlier pledge of four point eight seven crore rupees in compensation. Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) has transferred an amount of Rs 20 lakh to the families of the victims, in the September 27 stampede in Karur, which claimed 41 lives, party chief Vijay said in a statement. Vijay said, "We had ...Read More >
Patna: The Election Commission on Friday directed all enforcement agencies and security forces to take proactive and preventive measures to ensure that drugs, liquor and cash are not used to influence voters during the Bihar assembly elections.The directive followed a high-level meeting of the Multi-Departmental Committee on Election Intelligence (MDCEI) held at Nirvachan Sadan in New Delhi. The commission asked enforcement agencies to identify and map constituencies vulnerable to the transporta ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 19 (PTI) The Election Commission has reactivated its economic intelligence panel after a gap of six years to curb the use of money, liquor and drugs to influence voters ahead of the Bihar polls. The Multi-Departmental Committee on Election Intelligence (MDCEI) met here on Friday for the first time since 2019 to fine-tune the strategy of enforcement agencies and central police forces to prevent the use of money power and freebies to sway voters in poll-bound Bihar. The committee ...Read More >
Chennai: The Election Commission of India on Friday informed the Madras High Court that top actor Vijay's TVK is not a recognised political party.Niranjan Rajagopal, counsel for EC made the submission before the First bench comprising Chief Justice M M Shrivastava and Justice G Arul Murugan, when a Public Interest Litigation filed by C Selvakumar, which among other reliefs sought to derecognize Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), came up for hearing.TVK's derecognition was sought in the wake of the ...Read More >
The EC assured special arrangements for "dignified" identification of burqa-clad voters. (File) New Delhi: Amid demands by some opposition parties that the Election Commission withdraw its direction to verify identity of burqa-clad women at Bihar's polling stations, the EC on Thursday defended its move saying it is implementing a decision taken as back as 1994 when T N Seshan was heading the poll authority. The Samajwadi Party has demanded withdrawal of EC's decision to check burqa-clad women ...Read More >
LJP (Ram Vilas), led by Union Minister Chirag Paswan, has unveiled the list of all 29 candidates in its quota for the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025. Bihar Elections 2025 : LJP (Ram Vilas), led by Union Minister Chirag Paswan , has unveiled the list of all 29 candidates in its quota for the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025. LJP (R) is the part of NDA alliance. Prior to this, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) announced its list of candidates for all 101 seats it will contest in the Assembly ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 16 (PTI) Amid demands by some opposition parties that the Election Commission withdraw its direction to verify identity of burqa-clad women at Bihar's polling stations, the EC on Thursday defended its move saying it is implementing a decision taken as back as 1994 when T N Seshan was heading the poll authority. The Samajwadi Party has demanded withdrawal of EC's decision to check burqa-clad women during voting in Bihar. An EC spokesperson said that in October 1994, the poll body ...Read More >
Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee Wednesday said Union home minister Amit Shah was working like an "acting Prime Minister" and asked PM Narendra Modi to be cautious about him.Speaking to reporters on the rollout of special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls in the state, the CM said, "Tell me how the SIR process can be completed in 15 days amid natural calamities and the rain. Is the commission working for BJP or the protection of democratic rights of people.""These are all Amit Shah's games. He ...Read More >
Stay updated with the latest None news, articles, and insights from trusted sources. Explore in-depth coverage and expert analysis on None topics.