Sappal pointed out that earlier, voters could update their addresses on Form 8, but under the current system, there is no provision to migrate those entries. Instead, affected voters are being asked to re-enrol as new voters through Form 6, which in some cases separates or erases their ea
Following the Enumeration Phase of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Uttar Pradesh, the Office of the state Chief Electoral Officer said that Lucknow has the highest deletion of 30.04 per cent voters in the draft Electoral roll. On October 27, there were 3994535 electors, while on Janua
In her letter dated January 3, CM Banerjee alleged that officials of the Election Commission of India (ECI) misused IT systems, claiming that voter names were deleted from the backend without proper authorisation.
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.
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 electors have been included in the draft SIR list released on Tuesday, and they will receive notices to present their relevant documents to the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) or Assistant EROs who will determine the voter's claim of being included in the list.
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.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Gujarat State President Isudan Gadhvi while speaking on the SIR issue, criticised the BJP government following the removal of 7,373,000 voters from the voter lists voters during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. Gadhvi said that the large-scale deletions