The Congress on Saturday announced a nationwide "Save Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)" campaign beginning January 5 after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, escalating its political battle with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the Centre's
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday flagged the issue of "voter deletion" during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in nine states and three UTs.
The hearings for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) electoral rolls of the around 32 lakh unmapped voters, whose names could not be linked to family members in the 2002 Electoral Rolls, commenced on Saturday.
Actor and BJP leader R Sarathkumar on Friday said that only those who listen to people's grievances can become true leaders, adding that actor Vijay's political journey can be assessed only after he contests elections and presents a clear ideological stand.
A total of 2,734,817 have been deleted from the rolls. Out of the total, 6,42,234 were found to be dead, 19,13,540 were marked shifted or absent (from their residence), and 1,79,043 were already enrolled at multiple places.
Over 24.08 lakh electors were deleted from the voter lists in Kerala as the Election Commission of India (ECI) published the draft electoral roll on Tuesday after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in the state.
The first phase of the SIR concluded in the state on December 18 and the first draft roll of voters was released on Tuesday in which the said number of voters have been removed. These voters have been deleted from the rolls on the basis of being found dead, duplicated, absent and shifted
The current tally of voters in the state, as of October 27, stands at 5,31,31,983 as of December 23, 2025, down from a total of 5,74,06,143 recorded in October 27, 2025, according to Joint Chief Electoral Officer of Madhya Pradesh, Ram Pratap Singh Jadon.
Speaking with ANI, Thyagarajan questioned the Election Commission's guidelines, noting that Form 6 is intended for new voters and that its misuse can lead to imprisonment.
Stepping up her attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with assembly polls in West Bengal months away, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged the opposition party in the state wants to remove the names of 1.5 crore voters.
Referring to Bihar, Kumar said the massive SIR exercise had been carried out flawlessly, enabling around 75 million voters to participate in the recent Assembly elections. He said the process recorded zero complaints, zero re-polling and zero recounting, and congratulated Bihar's BLOs for