Election Commission News

An estimated 13.37 crore names have been deleted across the country from draft electoral rolls prepared during the Election Commission s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) over the past year. One of them is that of the youngest Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha, who

The Election Commission of India has initiated a Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls across Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Meghalaya, and Jharkhand. Booth Level Officers are conducting door-to-door verification to update electoral data, ensuring accuracy

South East Delhi is expected to be the worst-hit district in terms of the expected number of deletions in the draft Special Intensive Revision (SIR) roll which will be published on August 24. It had the lowest digitisation rate of electoral forms at 56.32%, In

The draft electoral rolls, which will be published on August 24, will likely exclude over 20.8 million or 21.25% electors in the state, as the deadline for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ended on Monday. Over 3.66 million or 35.24% electors in Mumbai and

With the door-to-door distribution of enumeration forms for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) set to begin on June 30 in Maharashtra, the State Election Commission has clarified that teachers will be assigned Booth Level Officer (BLO) duties during non-scho

The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has opened a new avenue for cyber fraudsters to dupe people of their hard-earned money. Posing as Election Commission officials, the scammers target voters, specifically elderly people, with claims of dis

The director of a Delhi-based technology firm, who was arrested in Mumbai this week in connection with a 2022 Jharkhand recruitment exam paper-leak case, had rented an office in South Delhi s Munirka in 2021 but stopped paying rent a year ago, according to the

The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it cannot fix a timeline for the tribunals formed to hear appeals against the exclusion of names from the voters list following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal but said it would look into the quantum of d

Mumbai is likely to seek an extension of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as progress in the enumeration exercise has remained slow, with officials blaming heavy rain and resistance from teachers assigned as booth-level officers

The government and the Election Commission of India (ECI) need to carefully read criticisms of the latest round of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by one of the country s digital governance pioneers. In an article in this newspaper, Ram Sewak Sharma who

In a span of seven days, the Election Commission (EC) of Maharashtra issued two letters relating to school teachers selected as Booth Level Officers (BLOs) for the ongoing voter roll Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The first order issued on June 27 said that

Rebel Trinamool Congress leader Ritabrata Banerjee claimed Sunday that the TMC faction led by him, the Ritabrata-TMC , is the real TMC, while citing a purported court order. However, the Mamata Banerjee camp said it was only an interim order and the final verd

The Congress government in Karnataka issued orders and guidelines on June 29 two days after the SIR exercise started in the state to issue PRCs and domicile certificates to its citizens to establish their residential status. The additional document was meant t

Since March end, when tribunals were set up in West Bengal to tackle cases of logical discrepancies after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise by the Election Commission was concluded, and long after the Assembly polls which the SIR was timed with got

The Election Commission s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is underway across Punjab, with Booth Level Officers (BLOs) carrying out door-to-door verification of voters. While the exercise is aimed at updating the state s electoral rolls, wit

The high court termed the commission s decision to limit applications to candidates eligible by August 31, 2022 as arbitrary and unjust. As the recruitment process had already commenced, the court initially directed the commission on July 7 last year to reopen

Former Congress corporator Mohsin Haider on Wednesday alleged that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Andheri taluka has virtually come to a standstill , citing poor field deployment of Booth Level Officers and warning that the July 29

The Karnataka High Court has sought responses from state and election bodies. A petition questions the State Election Commission's parallel voter revision process

Days after the Ritabrata Banerjee faction met the Election Commission of India, the Mamata Banerjee-led group of the TMC on Monday submitted its response to the poll panel, rejecting the rival group s claim over the party and saying that the All India Trinamoo

A 26-year-old supervisor for booth-level officers (BLO) engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in Karnataka died on Saturday after a truck collided with her scooter in Tumakuru, triggering overnight protests against alleged exces

A significant political upheaval has hit the Trinamool Congress as state president Chandrima Bhattacharya resigned from all party posts, including bank signatory and ECI representative. This follows a fallout with Mamata Banerjee, who accused Bhattacharya of d

Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje has urged the Election Commission to probe Karnataka's electoral roll revision, alleging widespread guideline violations. She claims mandatory door-to-door verification has been replaced by camp-based exercises, potentially all

The Pune district administration will launch a door-to-door verification of more than 91 lakh voters from June 30 as part of the Election Commission of India s Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the first exercise of its scale in over two decades. The drive wil

The Special Intensive Revision (SIR-2026) of electoral rolls will begin across the Gurugram district on Monday, with booth-level officers (BLOs) undertaking door-to-door verification of voters till July 14, district election officer and deputy commissioner Utt

A top Kuki body has opposed the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Manipur under the prevailing circumstances , expressing concern over the status of thousands of people displaced by the conflict in the state. In a statement issued Thursday, the Kuki Inpi Man