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Kuki body opposes Manipur voter roll revision, flags exclusion of 59,000 displaced people
June 04, 2026 10:26 pm
According to the EC, there are 20.91 lakh electors spread across 2,996 booths in Manipur.
30 lakh migrant workers may miss voter roll revision in Odisha, BJD cautions Election Commission
May 31, 2026 6:21 am
As part of the SIR exercise, over 45,000 booth level officers began door-to-door visits across the state Saturday, which will continue till June 28.
35% voters mapped with 2002 rolls, SIR preparation phase to begin in Gurgaon from June 5
May 29, 2026 8:27 pm
District authorities have announced 251 new proposed polling stations, including dedicated booths for high-rises, ahead of a district-wide door-to-door verification drive.
A democracy must worry about fake voters. But exclusion of the marginalised is the greater danger
May 30, 2026 6:28 am
Justice Surya Kant’s assurance that exclusion from the electoral roll does not formally divest citizenship offers only limited comfort as the West Bengal CM has announced denial of welfare schemes to excluded persons
Former CEC on SIR judgment: It gets the law right, the ground reality almost entirely wrong
May 29, 2026 7:09 am
The SC has told us the SIR is constitutional. What it has not told us — and what no judgment can — is whether a democracy that disenfranchises its poorest voters in the name of clean rolls deserves to call itself one
Only 42.53%: Delhi CEO flags 'very low' electoral roll mapping amid migration, locked homes
May 27, 2026 9:38 pm
Until May 26, the CEO said that only 62.44 lakh electors have been mapped by matching the 2025 electoral roll with records from the last such revision conducted in 2002.
Ashok Lavasa writes: Supreme Court order hands EC a clean chit. SIR's deleted still await justice
May 28, 2026 7:05 am
The ECI now owes it to the people to share this “material on record” that prompted the exercise and present a complete report card on the health of the electoral rolls following the SIR on the parameters of “integrity, accuracy and purity” and in comparison with the ERs prepared under its own supervision earlier.
‘Supreme Court has authorised disenfranchisement of millions’: Petitioners slam SIR verdict
May 27, 2026 5:45 pm
The EC had started the SIR exercise with Bihar in July last year, following it up with similar exercises in nine other states, including West Bengal, and three Union Territories, from November 2025.
Karnataka Congress sets up SIR monitoring panel ahead of electoral roll revision
May 26, 2026 9:25 pm
Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar said the Congress is working to ensure that no one loses their right to vote.
NIA arrests 15 in Malda over blockade, detention of judicial officers during West Bengal SIR
May 26, 2026 4:47 pm
Charges include keeping a woman judicial officer trapped inside her vehicle for eight hours and strategically sealing off the Bagmara Bridge to block security reinforcements.
SPECIAL INTENSIVE REVISION PHOTOS
Mamata Banerjee flags alleged voter deletions in Supreme Court SIR hearing
February 04, 2026 4:22 pm
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee personally addressed the Supreme Court over the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, alleging selective voter deletions and seeking judicial intervention
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