SIR
- India
SC to hear Mamata Banerjee’s plea against Bengal SIR process today
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Wednesday a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being carried out in West…
- Kolkata
Mamata Banerjee turns to poetry to protest against SIR
New Delhi: Amid the ongoing political and legal battle against the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has adopted an unusual form of protest, authoring 26…
- India
SC to hear Bengal’s plea against SIR; Mamata may attend proceedings
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on Wednesday, February 4, a plea filed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee challenging the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in…
- India
EC teaming up with BJP to delete PDA voters through Form-7: Akhilesh
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday, February 3, accused the Election Commission of India of teaming up with the BJP in Uttar Pradesh to delete the names of PDA voters…
- Telangana
SIR targets poor voters, but PM’s educational certificate still hidden: Revanth
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Monday, February 2, alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s educational certificate has not been revealed, but illiterates and the poor are asked to produce…
- India
Delhi: Mamata confronts police, asks for sensitivity towards SIR-affected families
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday, February 2, confronted the security personnel deployed outside Delhi’s Banga Bhawan and said she was in the national capital for justice to…
- Hyderabad
SIR: Progeny mapping starts in Hyderabad, BLOs lack clarity on rules
Hyderabad: Ahead of the upcoming Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters’ list in Telangana, Booth Level Officers (BLOs) began linking and progeny mapping in Hyderabad. Recently, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar…
- India
Mamata Banerjee to meet CEC in Delhi today on SIR issue
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be meeting the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, at the Election Commission of India (ECI) headquarters in New Delhi on Monday. She…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Prashant Bhushan links SIR to ‘Hindu Rashtra’ agenda
Hyderabad: Senior Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan on Saturday, January 31, alleged that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was being used as a tool to turn India into a…
- India
Opposition in Assam protests ‘vote theft’ through SR; slams Himanta, BJP
Guwahati: The united opposition on Friday held a protest against alleged irregularities in the draft electoral rolls and “vote theft” through the Special Revision (SR) ahead of assembly elections in Assam. A…
- India
SC reserves verdict on pleas challenging EC’s SIR of electoral rolls in Bihar
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday, January 29, reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas, including the one filed by NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), challenging the Special Intensive…
- India
SIR in TN: Voter enrollment deadline ends on January 30
Chennai: The extended deadline for inclusion of names in the electoral roll in Tamil Nadu will end on Friday (January 30), the Election Commission has reiterated, urging all eligible voters to complete…
- India
Will take SIR fight to Delhi sooner rather than later: CM Mamata
Singur: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee declared she would take her fight against the ongoing SIR exercise to Delhi sooner rather than later, after a last-minute rescheduling of her travel plans…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad voter list may shrink sharply after SIR in Telangana
Hyderabad: The voter list of Hyderabad is likely to shrink significantly after the upcoming Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Telangana. After Phase I in Bihar, Phase II of…
- India
Only ‘Miyas’ are being evicted in Assam: CM Himanta
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday asserted that only ‘Miyas’ (Bengali-speaking Muslims) are being evicted in the state. He accused the opposition parties of concentrating on appeasing the Miyas,…