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NEW DELHI: Nearly 27 lakh of the 60 lakh whose claims for inclusion in West Bengal's electoral roll were put in the "doubtful" category during the special intensive revision exercise may not be able to vote in the ensuing assembly polls, with judicial officers overseeing adjudication rejecting their claims. The electoral roll for the Bengal assembly polls' first phase - scheduled for April 23 - was to be frozen by Monday midnight. Supreme Court, which was informed of the final deletions by the C ...Read More >
The electoral registration officers (EROs) and additional electoral registration officers (AEROs) will now scrutinise the documents. Roll observers and micro-observers would then give their remarks before the final electoral roll is published on February 28. "We have now entered the final decision-making stage, wherein EROs and AEROs will have to apply their minds without fear or favour. They have to follow all rules and regulations and not go by emotions. No genuine voter should be left out wh ...Read More >
A BJP delegation, led by Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, visited the office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) in Kolkata on Monday (December 1, 2025), triggering loud protests by members of a Booth Level Officer (BLO) forum, who have been demonstrating there over alleged excessive workload during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, a senior officer said. As Mr. Adhikari, accompanied by several BJP MLAs, arrived at the CEO's office to meet officials, prot ...Read More >
Jaipur: Rajasthan chief electoral officer Naveen Mahajan said Monday Rajasthan is fully prepared for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, to be conducted from Oct 28, 2025, to Feb 7, 2026. The state is among 12 participating in the second phase of national voter roll revision exercise. Mahajan said Rajasthan has 5.48 crore registered voters, whose verification will be carried out by 52,469 Booth Level Officers (BLOs). "Of these, 2.61 crore voters are above 40 years of age, wi ...Read More >
Kolkata: Acting on an order from Election Commission, district magistrates are issuing show-cause notices to the booth-level officers in Bengal who are staying away from election duty. EC has also asked the departmental secretaries concerned to start proceedings against the BLOs.Around 1,000 of the 81,000 BLOs -- appointed from among govt employees, including schoolteachers -- have not yet joined poll duty, sources said.Many of the 1,000-odd BLOs had moved Calcutta High Court seeking exemption f ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 2 (PTI) The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across all states in the near future will witness a trend akin to Bihar where lakhs of deceased persons were removed from the voter list after several years. The Election Commission believes that once the system of linking data of registrar of births and deaths with poll machinery takes firm roots, the issue of deceased persons being part of electoral rolls will eventually be settled. Before the SIR commenced in Bih ...Read More >
Haryana chief electoral officer (CEO) A Sreenivas on Monday said that, as per the Election Commission of India (ECI) guidelines, a new voter list will be prepared and all booth level officers (BLOs) will be tasked with matching the current voter list of Haryana with that of the year 2002 by October 20 this year. If a voter's name appears in both lists, no additional documents will be required. Sreenivas said that both the 2002 and 2024 voter lists are available on the department's website for p ...Read More >
New Delhi: A Communist Party of India delegation met the full bench of the Election Commission of India Thursday and discussed issues ranging from the ongoing special intensive revision in Bihar to the implementation of the model code of conduct, party General Secretary D Raja said. The meeting was held as part of a series of interactions the poll panel is holding with political parties. Raja told PTI that they were invited by the Election Commission for the meeting. The delegation met Chief E ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: In a renewed effort to put economic pressure on Russia, the European Union on Friday unveiled a fresh package of sanctions, which includes lowering the price cap on Russian crude oil and sanctioning Nayara Energy Ltd, an India-based refinery linked to Russian energy giant Rosneft. This marks the first time the EU has imposed sanctions involving India, a country that has heavily relied on discounted Russian crude since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022. Nayara Energy Ltd, fo ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 18 (PTI) The Election Commission (EC) on Friday said it is sharing lists of Bihar electors who have probably died or have permanently shifted and have enrolled at multiple places with political parties and their booth-level agents to ascertain the exact status of such persons before July 25. As the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll of the state continues, the poll panel said according to the latest data, over 7.48 crore of the over 7.89 crore electors (94.68 ...Read More >
The Election Commission announces that over 6.60 crore electors in Bihar will feature in the draft electoral roll. This follows intensive revision of the voter list. Enumeration forms have been collected from a significant percentage of electors. Efforts are underway to include those temporarily migrated. The draft roll publication is scheduled for August 1. The names of over 6.60 crore out of the total 7.89 crore electors of Bihar will be included in the draft electoral roll, the Election Comm ...Read More >
Bihar's Chief Electoral Officer encourages urban voters to actively participate in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision. While rural areas show strong form collection, urban areas lag behind. Voters can submit forms now, even without all documents. Supporting documents can be submitted later. Bihar CEO on Friday urged urban voters to actively take part in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and submit their enumeration forms. While about 77% of forms have been collected from rural a ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 13: Field-level functionaries of the Election Commission have found "a large number of people" from Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar during house-to-house visits made for the ongoing intensive review of the voters' list in Bihar, officials said on Sunday. They asserted that a proper inquiry of such people will be conducted after August 1 and the names of illegal migrants will not be included in the final electoral roll to be published on September 30. Citing ground reports, EC off ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 13 (PTI) Field-level functionaries of the Election Commission have found "a large number of people" from Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar during house-to-house visits made for the ongoing intensive review of the voters' list in Bihar, officials said on Sunday. They asserted that a proper inquiry of such people will be conducted after August 1 and the names of illegal migrants will not be included in the final electoral roll to be published on September 30. Citing ground reports, EC ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the Election Commission of India (ECI) from proceeding with the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, where assembly elections are due. A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi asked the poll body to consider Aadhaar, voter ID and ration cards for the purpose of updating the rolls but left it to the discretion of the ECI whether to accept or reject them. The Bench said this after Senior Advocate Ra ...Read More >
Patna: Chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Tuesday said pure electoral rolls were essential for strengthening democracy as the Election Commission (EC) claimed that it had reached the halfway mark in collecting enumeration forms in Bihar during the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls."Pure electoral rolls are inevitable for strengthening democracy," the CEC told reporters in Delhi, amid the revision drive underway in the poll-bound state.According to the EC, the ...Read More >
The Election Commission of India reports that nearly 87% of Bihar's 7.96 crore voters have received semi-filled enumeration forms for the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. Distributed during the first BLO visit to 1.5 crore households, nearly 38 lakh forms have already been collected. The EC emphasizes 'Inclusion First,' with 1.Nearly 87 per cent of the 7.96 crore voters in Bihar have been provided with semi-filled enumeration forms for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) o ...Read More >
Patna: Amid mounting criticism from opposition parties, the Election Commission (EC) on Sunday clarified that there has been no change in the instructions governing the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar and that the existing rules continue to apply.Releasing an official statement, the EC reiterated that the SIR process is being carried out as per its June 24 guidelines. It said the names of electors who submit enumeration forms by July 25 will be included in th ...Read More >
Kochi: Edison Babu's neighbours in Muvattupuzha knew him as the quiet engineer who had returned home during the pandemic. The 35-year-old former auto industry professional seemed to lead an unremarkable life in this sleepy Kerala suburb, occasionally visiting the local post office with packages: nothing unusual for someone running what appeared to be a small online business. What they didn't know was that their mild-mannered neighbour had built India's most sophisticated darknet drug empire, o ...Read More >
Gyanesh Kumar NEW DELHI: With enumeration forms distributed to 93.7% of Bihar's 7.9 crore electorate so far and 13.2% electors already submitting the completed and signed forms, EC officials Saturday told TOI that documents can be added or uploaded by electors whose enumeration forms were submitted with incomplete documentation, right until July 25. July 25 is the last date for submission of the filled-up enumeration forms."As of Saturday 6pm, over one crore enumeration forms (13.2% of Bihar's e ...Read More >
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