electoral rolls
- India
Bengal SIR: Electoral authorities to submit pending documents by today
New Delhi: Electoral authorities in West Bengal have been directed to ensure that all pending verification documents linked to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls are submitted to the designated…
- India
SIR in Tamil Nadu: Final electoral roll published, nearly 1 cr voters deleted
Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s final electoral roll has been officially published on Monday, February 23, following an extensive Special Intensive Revision (SIR) undertaken in compliance with directions from the Election Commission of India…
- India
ECI to hold roundtable with State Election Commissioners on Feb 24
The Election Commission of India (ECI) is set to hold the National Round Table Conference of ECI and State Election Commissioners (SECs) at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on February 24. The…
- India
Bengal SIR: Judicial scrutiny to start from Monday
Kolkata: The full-fledged judicial adjudication of claims and objections arising from the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound West Bengal will start from Monday, and the process will…
- India
Gujarat SIR: 74 lakh voters deleted, total count stands at 4.40 crore
Ahmedabad: The total number of voters in Gujarat now stands at 4.40 crore as per the final electoral rolls published on Tuesday, February 17, by the Election Commission (EC) following the nearly…
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From custodianship to command: Judicial review and electoral integrity
The conduct of elections in India is constitutionally entrusted to the Election Commission of India (ECI) under Article 324 of the Constitution. This power, described as plenary in form, has nonetheless been…
- India
Somnath SIR: 269 file bulk forms to delete 15,000 voters, majority Muslim
As many as 15,663 forms were filed in bulk to delete voters from the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Gujarat’s Somnath assembly constituency in January, a majority of…
- India
UP SIR: Asked to remove 86 Muslim names from electoral roll, claims BLO
Amid the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process of the electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh, a Booth Level Officer (BLO) claimed that a person named Dharmendra Maurya objected…
- India
UP SIR: ECI extends period of filing claims, objections
New Delhi: The ECI has extended by one month or till March 6 the period of filing claims and objections to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Uttar…
- India
Gujarat SIR: Minority voters removed from voter list, declared ‘dead’
Ahmedabad: Several Muslim voters in the Jamalpur Assembly of Gujarat’s Ahmedabad were reportedly removed and declared dead in the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state, sparking allegations…
- News
UP CEO explains how voters can check names in draft electoral roll
Lucknow: The Chief Electoral Officer of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday shared the procedure for checking whether a person’s name has been included in the draft voter list published on January 6. The…
- India
Congress alleges irregularities in Assam draft electoral roll
Guwahati: Assam’s Leader of Opposition Debabrata Saikia wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alleging “serious irregularities” in the draft electoral rolls of the state, published after a Special Revision (SR). The…
- India
Kerala parties seek exemption from voter hearings during SIR
Thiruvananthapuram: Political parties on Saturday requested the Kerala CEO to minimise hearings of voters as part of the SIR of the electoral rolls. The request was raised during a meeting convened by…
- India
SIR in Madhya Pradesh: Draft electoral roll to be published by ECI on Monday
New Delhi: After more than one-and-a-half month of door-to-door Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Madhya Pradesh, the Election Commission of India (ECI) will release the draft electoral roll of voters for…
- India
SIR: 1 lakh voters deleted from Stalin’s Kolathur seat in draft electoral roll
Chennai: More than 1,03,812 voters have been removed from Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s Kolathur constituency, marking one of the biggest single reductions in the state-wide Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral…
