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Gandhinagar: The office of the chief electoral officer (CEO) of Gujarat will begin the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls from Tuesday. The exercise is scheduled to be completed by Feb 7, 2026.According to the schedule issued by the CEO's office, training of personnel for the revision exercise will be conducted from Oct 28 to Nov 3. House-to-house verification by both level officers (BLOs) will take place between Nov 4 and Dec 4, followed by the publication of the draft electora ...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 >
CHENNAI: Following the notification of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu, the voter list of the State will be frozen at 00.00 hrs on Tuesday (Monday midnight) until the publication of the draft electoral rolls on December 9 as part of the SIR. "After publication of draft rolls, we need to process all claims and objections and publish final electoral rolls on February 7," a senior official said. Meanwhile, a few hours after the Election Commission of Indi ...Read More >
Lucknow: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh will begin tomorrow as part of a nationwide drive to update and clean voter lists ahead of upcoming elections. Booth Level Officers will start door-to-door visits from November 4 to verify voter details across the state. The Election Commission has launched the exercise to remove duplicate, deceased, migrated, or ineligible voters, add newly eligible citizens, and correct errors in existing records. The revision a ...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 >
The government on Thursday initiated the process to appoint the next chief justice of India as incumbent B R Gavai demits office on November 23, In an era where almost all aspects of governance and decision-making involves the usage of technology, in varying degrees, Justice Surya Kant, poised to assume the office of Chief Justice of India (CJI) next month, has been a strong proponent of profound human enterprise in the domain of dispensing justice. In his recent address, Justice Surya Kant, ...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 >
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 >
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 >
In West Bengal, close to a thousand booth-level officials have been served show cause notices for their failure to register on the ERO-NET portal. This oversight has raised concerns, suggesting a willful disregard for their responsibilities. Show cause notices have been issued to nearly 1,000 booth-level officers (BLOs) in West Bengal for alleged non-compliance with election-related directives under the Representation of the People Act, 1950, a senior official said on Wednesday. The officers h ...Read More >
The Election Commission is set to launch a pan-India Special Intensive Revision of voters' lists next week, starting with 10-15 states including Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and West Bengal. This exercise aims to remove illegal migrants by verifying their place of birth, with states having local body elections excluded from the initial phase. The Election Commission is likely to roll out the first of pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters' list next week beginning with "10 to 15 sta ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, Oct 25: The Election Commission is likely to roll out the first of pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters' list next week beginning with "10 to 15 states", including those going to polls next year, officials said Saturday. Follow the Daily Excelsior channel on WhatsApp Assam, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala and West Bengal will to polls in 2026 and they are amongst the States where the voters' list cleanup exercise will begin first. The poll authority is likely to anno ...Read More >
Chennai: The Special Intensive Voter List Revision (SIR) work will commence in a week in Tamil Nadu and other states scheduled to face elections, Election Commission of India (ECI) informed the Madras high court on Friday.The submission was made on a plea moved by former AIADMK MLA S Sathyanarayanan, who alleged large-scale irregularities in the voters' list of the T Nagar constituency. He wanted the court to order a complete and transparent re-verification of the 229 booths in the T Nagar const ...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 >
Hyderabad: All polling stations set up for the upcoming Jubilee Hills Assembly by-election will have basic voter amenities like a mobile phone deposit counter will be available outside polling stations. Voters can hand over switched-off phones before entering and collect them after voting, said chief electoral officer for Telangana Sudharshan Reddy. He added that arrangements were being made to make voting easy and accessible for everyone, including senior citizens and persons with disabilities ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued detailed instructions to all Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) across States and Union Territories to ensure that every polling station is equipped with Assured Minimum Facilities (AMFs) and adequate voter assistance mechanisms on the day of polling. The directive comes as the Nuapada Assembly constituency in Odisha prepares to go to polls on November 11, 2025, alongside the second phase of the Bihar Legislative Assembly elections and ...Read More >
Mumbai: Expressing confidence that BJP on its own would cross the 100-seat mark in the 227-strong BMC in the upcoming civic elections, CM Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday said the party won't stake claim to the mayor's post simply on the basis of strength. "I shall not insist that the mayor is from BJP even if we have the numbers. The mayor could be from the [Eknath] Shinde group," he said.He said BJP will form an alliance with Shiv Sena in four of the nine municipal corporations in Mumbai Metropol ...Read More >
Kolkata/Midnapore: The Election Commission will have its task cut out once special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is launched in Bengal. It will have to verify within three months 3.5 crore voters who are not on the state's 2002 SIR list. The electoral roll published post the 2002 SIR and the one in Jan 2025 have thrown up a 52% match.Bengal has a voter base of 7.6 crore, EC officials said.A preparatory SIR mapping -- matching of the 2002 and 2025 lists -- has been completed for all ...Read More >
Kolkata: BJP has been trying to mislead people with its illegal infiltrator pitch with regard to special intensive revision (SIR) of Bengal's voter roll, Trinamool Congress said on Wednesday, adding that the saffron party was trying to hide the fact that it has "neither organisation, nor acceptability" in Bengal. It said the BJP was "directionless" and had embarked on a "dangerous game to divide people" and "manipulate voter lists."Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Trinamool spokesperson Kunal ...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 >
Raj Thackeray, MNS chief, claims 96 lakh fake voters are on Maharashtra's electoral rolls. He challenges the Election Commission to clean the lists before local body polls. Thackeray alleges this is an attempt to finish regional parties and fix election outcomes. He urges party workers to verify voter lists. The State Election Commission states voter lists are managed securely. MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday alleged that 96 lakh fake voters have been added to Maharashtra's electoral rolls an ...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 >
He asserted that the Bihar SIR model was "defective", and replicating it in other states without modification would be "highly inappropriate". "According to EC's own data, there has been a net deletion of 47 lakh names in the entire SIR process in Bihar, with the total electorate shrinking from 7.89 crore to 7.42 crore," Sarkar said. "Over 26 lakh electors were marked 'permanently shifted' in the enumeration phase, most of them married women or internal migrants, and their names were deleted w ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Election Commission is set to finalise dates for special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in several states, at a meeting with various CEOs including that of Bengal in Delhi on Wednesday and Thursday. Officials indicated that SIR would be launched in Bengal by mid-Nov at the latest. Officials hinted that it could even be the first week of Nov.If launched in mid-Nov, SIR will be completed by mid-Feb next year, since the process requires at least 100 days, said sources. Pol ...Read More >
Mumbai, Oct 19: MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday alleged that 96 lakh fake voters have been added to Maharashtra's electoral rolls and challenged the Election Commission, asking how it will hold the local body polls without cleaning up the voters' list. Addressing booth-level agents of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Thackeray said if polls are held by rigging the voters' list, then it is the biggest insult to electors. He urged his party workers to verify the voters' list to find out fa ...Read More >
Kolkata: The stage has been set for the 2026 Bengal assembly elections, five months from now. Unlike in earlier elections, what occupies the center stage is not govt policies. Instead, an initiative by the Election Commission of India -- special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, is at the helm, overshadowing all other issues.A careful reading of Article 325 of the Constitution leaves little room for debate that the Election Commission has the power to conduct SIR. Yet, the debate rage ...Read More >
Mumbai: Opposition parties in Maharashtra have announced a protest march in Mumbai on November 1 against the Election Commission of India (ECI), alleging large-scale irregularities in the state's electoral rolls. The announcement comes days after a delegation comprising senior leaders from the Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP (Sharad Pawar faction), and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) met with Chief Electoral Officer S. Chokalingam and State Election Commissioner Dinesh Waghmare. The leaders exp ...Read More >
AICC general secretary Ghulam Ahmed Mir (left), Congress state chief Subhankar Sarkar (second from right) and chairman of Congress SIR committee Prasenjit Bose (right) along with other leaders at a news meet at Bidhan Bhavan on Saturday The Telegraph The Congress, which had trained its guns on the BJP in Bihar over the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, is now set to hold the Trinamool Congress to scrutiny in Bengal. Both the Congress and the Trinamool Congress are constituen ...Read More >
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