From June 2025 the Election Commission rebuilt India's voter list, asking every voter to fill in a form again. More than 13 crore names fell off the draft rolls, most marked absent or moved. This record follows why it was done, who was left off, and how they get back.https://lifeinindia.org/Our own words and data are licensed CC BY 4.0, and our conversations are in the public domain. Quotations, first-person accounts and photographs belong to their owners. https://lifeinindia.org/licence/https://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-1950-the-constitution-of-indiahttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-1950-the-constitution-of-india<p>The Constitution of India as on 1 May 2024, with all amendments up to 2023. It is the frame for this Long View on who stays on India’s voter list. The Election Commission is in charge of preparing the electoral rolls (article 324). One general electoral roll serves each territorial constituency for Parliament or State Legislatures, and no one may be kept off it on grounds only of religion, race, caste or sex (article 325). For the House of the People and State Assemblies, a citizen of at least eighteen years on the date fixed by law, not otherwise disqualified, is entitled to be registered as a voter (article 326). Panchayat and municipal rolls sit with State Election Commissions.</p> <p><em>Act</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p><a href="https://www.legislative.gov.in/static/uploads/2025/08/cb1b190ea633a1746368ed1fac35fb30.pdf">Read the Constitution</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaw and courtsThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-1950-the-representation-of-the-peoplehttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-1950-the-representation-of-the-people<p>The Act that governs who is on India’s voter list, and how the list is prepared and revised. It puts electoral-roll preparation and revision under the Election Commission’s superintendence, direction and control, and names the officers in charge, down to the electoral registration officer of each constituency. It sets out when a name is corrected, shifted or deleted, and how someone left off can get back on. Civil courts cannot decide whether someone is entitled to be registered on a constituency’s electoral roll, or question the specified official actions and decisions about that roll.</p> <p><em>Act</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p><a href="https://www.legislative.gov.in/static/uploads/2025/07/ac33f0f2d5331c5a00d5c944e8bfe29c.pdf">Read the Act</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaw and courtsThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-1951-when-india-voted-for-thehttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-1951-when-india-voted-for-the<p>Google Arts &amp; Culture’s story by Ruchita Bait Gavhane tells how India held its first general election, and counts identifying, naming and registering voters among its great tasks. Universal adult suffrage made 173 million people over 21 eligible to vote, and 85% of them could not read or write; symbols, ballot papers and ballot boxes had to be designed with that in mind. Sukumar Sen, the first Chief Election Commissioner, conducted the election. Polling ran from 25 October 1951 to 21 February 1952. 45.7% of eligible voters turned out. The Indian National Congress won 364 of the 489 seats, and Jawaharlal Nehru became the first elected prime minister.</p> <p><em>Event</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ruchita Bait Gavhane.</p> <p><a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/india-39-s-first-general-election-1951-52/-wUhbZOT11a1RA?hl=en">Read the story</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEventsThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-1955-report-on-the-first-generalhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-1955-report-on-the-first-general<p>This is the Election Commission’s own report on the first general elections, signed by the Chief Election Commissioner, Sukumar Sen. It records how the first electoral roll was built, how the Commission planned later revisions, and that women who would not give their own names had their entries deleted. It admits the rolls were not accurate, and says a house-to-house check of one-fifth of each state every year would cover every part in five years.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Sukumar Sen.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Election Commission, India.</p> <p><a href="https://cdn.downtoearth.org.in/library/0.61706000_1558592806_first-general-elections-in-india%2C-vol.pdf">The report</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-1995-lal-babu-hussein-others-vshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-1995-lal-babu-hussein-others-vs<p>Directives the Election Commission issued in August 1992 and September 1994 told officials to identify voters who were not Indian citizens, and in Bombay the police wrote to 1.67 lakh people asking for documents. The Supreme Court quashed those proceedings in February 1995. It ruled that any further inquiry must disclose the material behind the suspicion, hear all the evidence offered, and end in a reasoned order, with weight given to a name already on the previous roll.</p> <p><em>Judgment</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By A.M. Ahmadi and N.P. Singh and Sujata V. Manohar.</p> <p><a href="https://indiankanoon.org/doc/883535/">Read the judgment</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaw and courtsThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2011-handbook-for-booth-level-officershttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2011-handbook-for-booth-level-officers<p>The Election Commission published this handbook in 2011 for its booth level officers. They are local government or semi-government officials who keep the voters’ list for one or two polling station areas, and find dead, shifted and duplicate names. It names four kinds of revision, among them the two that matter here. An intensive revision builds the roll afresh from a house-to-house count. A summary revision, normally held every year, publishes the existing roll as a draft for claims and objections. It also states the safeguard that matters when names are struck: no name is removed for residence alone without the due procedure, which includes a duly filled Form 7 objection.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Election Commission of India.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Election Commission of India.</p> <p><a href="https://ceomeghalaya.nic.in/blos/blos-handbook.pdf">The handbook</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2014-the-travails-of-indias-firsthttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2014-the-travails-of-indias-first<p>This article, an extract from Ramachandra Guha’s India after Gandhi, follows Sukumar Sen, the mathematician and civil servant appointed India’s first chief election commissioner in March 1950. His task was to register an electorate in which most people could not read or write, and Sen asked Jawaharlal Nehru to wait. The polls were set for early 1952, with a few far-off districts voting sooner. It shows what it took to put every adult’s name on a list.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ramachandra Guha.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Caravan.</p> <p><a href="https://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/ramachandra-guha-indias-first-election-commissioner">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2014-delhis-phantom-voterhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2014-delhis-phantom-voter<p>Janaagraha, a Bangalore non-profit that works on city voter rolls, checked a sample of names on Delhi’s list just before the 2013 assembly election. Close to 20% of the names could have serious errors that called for deletion, the survey found, because the voter had died, moved away or could not be traced. The study came after the Election Commission had reportedly removed 14 lakh names from Delhi’s rolls. In six of the seven constituencies surveyed, the number of doubtful names was larger than the winning margin in 2008. The article argues that an inflated roll makes fraud easier and makes city turnout look lower than it was.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ebony R. Bertorelli.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Seminar, issue 663.</p> <p><a href="https://www.india-seminar.com/2014/663/663_ebony_r_bertorelli.htm">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2018-how-india-became-democratichttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2018-how-india-became-democratic<p>Ornit Shani teaches Asian studies at the University of Haifa, and her book How India Became Democratic traces how India prepared its first list of voters, a subject this Long View follows. In an interview with The Wire, she says election officials could not answer her, and that the files she needed turned up in the Election Commission’s record room, now in the National Archives. With citizenship still undecided, a place on that roll became the clearest proof of being Indian, and refugees fought for one.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Monobina Gupta.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Wire.</p> <p><a href="https://m.thewire.in/article/books/india-became-democratic/amp">Read the interview</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2019-final-nrc-list-in-assamhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2019-final-nrc-list-in-assam<p>The News Minute’s report of 31 August 2019 covers the final National Register of Citizens for Assam, published that day after an update the Supreme Court ordered and monitored. It gives the government’s figures for who was included and left out, the promised appeal at Foreigners’ Tribunals, and strangers’ objections to names and the opposition’s allegation that most of the excluded were Muslim. It belongs in this Long View as the nearest earlier example of a mass check of documents that decided who stayed on that register.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By TNM Staff.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The News Minute.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/news/final-nrc-list-assam-published-over-19-lakh-people-left-out-108125">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2021-vital-statistics-of-india-basedhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2021-vital-statistics-of-india-based<p>This is the Registrar General’s annual report on India’s civil registration system, the compulsory recording of births and deaths, for 2019. It gives, for each state, the level of birth registration: registered births as a share of the births the Sample Registration System estimates. The report also records an April 2019 circular telling states that Aadhaar need not be treated as compulsory for registering a birth or death.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Office of the Registrar General, India.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Office of the Registrar General, India, Ministry of Home Affairs.</p> <p><a href="https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/42541/download/46167/CRS_Report_2019.pdf">The report</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2024-pehla-pehla-chunaav-samvidhaani-pitaarahttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2024-pehla-pehla-chunaav-samvidhaani-pitaara<p>An episode of Samvidhaani Pitaara, the Radio Azim Premji University series on the Constitution. Hosts Seetal and Vineet KKN Panchhi retell, as a dramatised radio broadcast, the counting in 1952 that declared independent India’s first general election results. It is the election the first roll made possible, told for a general listener.</p> <p><em>Podcast episode</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Seetal and Vineet KKN Panchhi.</p> <p><a href="https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/samvidhaani-pitaara-constitution-india/1952-a-love-story-for-democracy-in-india">Listen to the episode</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEntryThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2024-note-explaining-process-of-annualhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2024-note-explaining-process-of-annual<p>The Election Commission’s own account of how it revises India’s voter list, with answers to the questions it is asked about the process. It describes house-to-house checking by booth level officers, the draft roll, and the public lists of claims and objections. Its safeguards against wrongful deletion include a personal notice and a reasonable opportunity for a hearing in proposed deletions other than death cases. It is the Commission’s own account of its process.</p> <p><em>ECI note</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Election Commission of India.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Election Commission of India.</p> <p><a href="https://www.eci.gov.in/Documents/Final-ER-FAQ.pdf">Read the ECI note</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-ec-clarifies-that-duplication-inhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-ec-clarifies-that-duplication-in<p>An identical EPIC number does not make two voters in different states duplicates or fakes, the Election Commission said on 2 March 2025. The Commission blamed a manual, decentralized system for the overlap, and said some state offices had used the same series of letters and digits before the rolls of all states moved to the ERONET platform. It said it would give every registered elector a unique number, fix any duplicates, and update the ERONET 2.0 platform to help.</p> <p><em>Press release</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p><a href="https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2107501">Read the release</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEntryThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-special-intensive-revision-wrt-01072025https://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-special-intensive-revision-wrt-01072025<p>The Election Commission’s order of 24 June 2025, signed by its Secretary, Pawan Diwan, directed a Special Intensive Revision in Bihar and promised a schedule for the rest of the country later. Booth-level officers were to visit every household and hand each existing voter a pre-filled enumeration form. The schedule listed the collection of forms, with documents, through 26 July 2025. An existing elector whose form was not submitted before 25 July would not be included in the draft roll. A voter on the 2003 roll needed no document beyond an extract of that roll. Electoral registration officers were to treat it as evidence of eligibility, including a presumption of citizenship, unless other information came to them.</p> <p><em>Scheme</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p><a href="https://www.scobserver.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Bihar-SIR-Notification.pdf">Read the order</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTSchemes and campaignsThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-association-for-democratic-reforms-orshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-association-for-democratic-reforms-ors<p>The Supreme Court heard a batch of petitions against the Election Commission’s order of June 2025 for a special intensive revision of the electoral roll. The court called the question one of the right to vote and identified three issues: the Commission’s power to run the exercise, its procedure, and a timetable it said was very short. It gave the Commission a deadline for its reply and fixed the next hearing before the draft roll is published. The court also asked the Commission to consider Aadhaar, the electors’ photo identity card and the ration card when verifying voters.</p> <p><em>Judgment</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p><a href="https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2025/35785/35785_2025_11_40_62250_Order_10-Jul-2025.pdf">Read the order</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaw and courtsThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-election-commission-has-power-tohttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-election-commission-has-power-to<p>The Election Commission told the Supreme Court it can check whether a person seeking a place on the electoral roll is a citizen, defending the Special Intensive Revision of Bihar’s rolls. The Commission said Article 326 of the Constitution and the Representation of the People Act, 1950 oblige it to keep non-citizens off the roll, and that it does not itself decide citizenship. The Supreme Court had said on July 10, orally, that deciding citizenship was the Union government’s job. The petitions are listed for hearing on July 28.</p> <p><em>News report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Amisha Shrivastava.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Live Law.</p> <p><a href="https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/election-commission-has-power-to-verify-citizenship-eci-tells-supreme-court-in-bihar-sir-matter-298335">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-explainer-what-is-the-specialhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-explainer-what-is-the-special<p>The Election Commission of India began a Special Intensive Revision of Bihar’s electoral roll on 25 June 2025, sending an enumeration form to each of the 8 crore voters on it. Voters enrolled after January 2003 also had to produce documents showing when and where they and their parents were born. Rangarajan R., a former Indian Administrative Service officer, sets out the law and both sides of the argument, including the objection that the exercise turns the Commission into a verifier of citizenship.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Rangarajan R..</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The India Forum.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theindiaforum.in/sites/default/files/article_pdf/2025/07/22/1830-1753159742.pdf">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-bihar-sir-key-findings-ofhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-bihar-sir-key-findings-of<p>In July 2025 the Election Commission of India issued a press note on Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision. Booth level officers took enumeration forms house to house, and not sending one back by 25 July was among the reasons a form was not received. Of 7.89 crore electors on the roll on 24 June 2025, over 7.24 crore had submitted forms. The Commission says no name can be struck from the draft roll without notice and a speaking order. An aggrieved elector may appeal to the District Magistrate and then the Chief Electoral Officer. Genuine electors left out can seek inclusion during claims and objections from 1 August to 1 September.</p> <p><em>Press note</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Apurva Kumar Singh.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Election Commission of India.</p> <p><a href="https://sabrangindia.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ECI-PN-27.07.2025.pdf">Read the press note</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-election-commission-doubles-the-remunerationhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-election-commission-doubles-the-remuneration<p>The Election Commission’s press note of 2 August 2025 doubles the yearly pay of a booth level officer (BLO), from ₹6,000 to ₹12,000, and raises a BLO supervisor’s pay from ₹12,000 to ₹18,000. It sets an honorarium for Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) for the first time, ₹30,000 for the EROs and ₹25,000 for the AEROs. It also approves a special incentive of ₹6,000 for BLOs for the Special Intensive Revision, starting from Bihar. It is signed by Apurva Kumar Singh, Assistant Director.</p> <p><em>Press note</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p><a href="https://ceolakshadweep.gov.in/Users/download_pdf_draft_roll_2024/RWxlY3Rpb24gQ29tbWlzc2lvbiBkb3VibGVzIHRoZSByZW11bmVyYXRpb24gZm9yIEJvb3RoIExldmVsIE9mZmljZXJzOyBFbmhhbmNlcyByZW11bmVyYXRpb24gZm9yIEJMTyBTdXBlcnZpc29ycy5wZGY=">Read the press note</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEntryThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-rahul-claims-proof-of-pollhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-rahul-claims-proof-of-poll<p>PTI’s report of 7 August 2025 covers Rahul Gandhi’s press conference in Delhi. He said the Congress had collected what he called “criminal evidence” of fraud in one Bangalore segment in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, and alleged collusion between the Election Commission and the BJP. Gandhi claimed the party’s analysis identified duplicate voters, fake or invalid addresses and misuse of Form 6 in the Mahadevapura assembly segment in Bangalore Central. The Commission asked him to sign a declaration and name the electors he says are wrongly on the list, and the BJP called his claims ‘calculated deceit’. It shows a party disputing the voter list, and what the poll authorities asked Gandhi to provide.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By PTI.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Week.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theweek.in/wire-updates/national/2025/08/07/del109-ec-ldall-rahul.html">Read the report</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-bihar-sir-is-intensive-deletionhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-bihar-sir-is-intensive-deletion<p>This Live Law report covers a Supreme Court hearing on petitions against the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision of Bihar’s electoral rolls. The activist Yogendra Yadav brought two people to court who, he said, had been declared dead in the Commission’s draft roll. He argued the exercise was deleting voters on a scale not seen before. The Commission’s counsel said Yadav could instead help those people get the roll corrected, and called his display drama.</p> <p><em>News report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Debby Jain.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Live Law.</p> <p><a href="https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/bihar-sir-is-intensive-deletion-exercise-yogendra-yadav-appears-in-supreme-court-with-two-persons-deleted-as-dead-by-eci-from-draft-300679">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-former-cec-rawat-backs-echttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-former-cec-rawat-backs-ec<p>O P Rawat, a former Chief Election Commissioner, welcomed the Election Commission’s press briefing on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Bihar’s electoral rolls and called the Commission impartial. He said the chance of one person voting twice was negligible, pointing to identity checks at booths and the ink mark put on a voter’s finger. Rawat would not be drawn on Rahul Gandhi’s allegation of vote theft, saying he had not heard Sunday’s briefing, the first by the sitting Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, after the accusation.</p> <p><em>News report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Outlook India.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Outlook India.</p> <p><a href="https://www.outlookindia.com/national/ex-poll-body-chief-rawat-welcomes-ecs-clarification-on-bihar-electoral-rolls-stresses-impartiality">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-give-affidavit-or-apologise-nohttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-give-affidavit-or-apologise-no<p>The Sentinel reports on a press briefing where the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, answered Rahul Gandhi’s charge that votes were stolen in the Mahadevapura assembly segment of Bangalore Central. Kumar asked Gandhi to file a signed affidavit backing the claim or apologise to the country, and called the charge of bias against the Commission an insult to the Constitution. On the same day Gandhi began a march from Sasaram in Bihar, the Commission asked parties to flag mistakes in the draft roll before 1 September.</p> <p><em>News report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Sentinel Digital Desk.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Sentinel.</p> <p><a href="https://www.sentinelassam.com/topheadlines/give-affidavit-or-apologise-no-third-option-cec-to-rahul-gandhi">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-how-ecs-ask-for-proofhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-how-ecs-ask-for-proof<p>This opinion piece in The Wire by Syed Khalid Saifullah argues that many voters in Bihar’s special intensive revision of the voter rolls may lack a suitable listed document, often because they were never issued a birth certificate. The writer is vice chairman of the data analytics department of the Indian National Congress, and he calls the aim of clean electoral rolls understandable but the requirement unjust. The article sets out the documents accepted as proof, and notes that claims and objections were to close on 1 September.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Syed Khalid Saifullah.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Wire.</p> <p><a href="https://thewire.in/government/ec-bihar-sir-proof-of-birth-punishes-citizens-for-low-state-capacity">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-association-for-democratic-reforms-orshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-association-for-democratic-reforms-ors<p>This Supreme Court order of 8 September 2025 addresses a batch of petitions concerning the revised voter list in Bihar, and does not finally decide them. Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi held that the Aadhaar card is not proof of citizenship. The card must still be accepted as proof of identity when a name is added to or removed from the roll, and the Election Commission was told to issue instructions by the next day.</p> <p><em>Judgment</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p><a href="https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2025/35785/35785_2025_2_26_63969_Order_08-Sep-2025.pdf">Read the order</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaw and courtsThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-explained-list-of-12-documentshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-explained-list-of-12-documents<p>A Deccan Herald explainer on the documents Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls accepts for voter identity verification. It reports the Supreme Court’s direction to the Election Commission to add Aadhaar as the twelfth document, and the court’s clarification that Aadhaar proves identity and does not confirm citizenship. The piece sets out the accepted documents, among them a birth certificate, a pension order and a forest rights certificate.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By DH Web Desk.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Deccan Herald.</p> <p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/bihar/explained-list-of-12-documents-that-can-be-used-as-proof-of-nationality-as-per-bihar-sir-3718830">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-more-men-die-in-biharhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-more-men-die-in-bihar<p>Bihar’s voter rolls lost 65.7 lakh names in one month of the Special Intensive Revision, the Election Commission’s re-check of the state’s voter rolls. Newslaundry reads the Commission’s own breakdown and finds women at 36.59 lakh of the deletions against 29.3 lakh men. Death was given as the reason for 11.6 lakh of those women, though the state’s register of births and deaths records men as nearly 60 percent of deaths between 2018 and 2022.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Sumedha Mittal and Vishal Vaibhav.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Newslaundry.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newslaundry.com/2025/09/12/more-men-die-in-bihar-but-more-women-vanish-from-its-voter-rolls">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-how-booth-level-officers-inhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-how-booth-level-officers-in<p>Newslaundry sent reporters to booths in Purnia, Hajipur and Digha, among those in Bihar where the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision, a re-check of the voter list, removed unusually many names. The officers describe no written rule on what evidence proved a voter dead, moved away, registered twice or simply absent, so the standard varied from officer to officer. Most of those struck off were marked as having shifted away or as absent, though many told the reporters they had lived at the same address for years.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Team Bihar SIR.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Newslaundry.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newslaundry.com/2025/09/13/how-booth-level-officers-in-bihar-are-deleting-voters-arbitrarily">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-ec-should-have-ordered-probehttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-ec-should-have-ordered-probe<p>S Y Quraishi, a former chief election commissioner, tells PTI the Election Commission should have investigated Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s ‘vote theft’ allegations and calls its demand for a sworn statement objectionable. He also questions why the Commission left its own voter identity card off the list of accepted documents, and warns that the Special Intensive Revision in Bihar risks undoing years of work. The article records the Commission’s position that the revision is meant to remove ineligible and duplicate entries while keeping eligible citizens on the roll.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Onmanorama Staff.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Onmanorama.</p> <p><a href="https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2025/09/14/election-commission-s-y-quraishi-rahul-gandhi.html">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-special-intensive-revision-sir-ofhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-special-intensive-revision-sir-of<p>The Election Commission’s press note announcing that the Special Intensive Revision of Bihar’s electoral rolls was finished on 30 September 2025, with about 7.42 crore voters on the final list. It prints the exercise’s numbers and thanks the officials, political parties and Booth Level Officers who did the work. This is the Commission’s own account of what the revision changed in one state’s voter list.</p> <p><em>Post</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Apurva Kumar Singh.</p> <p><a href="https://ceolakshadweep.gov.in/Users/download_pdf_draft_roll_2024/MTc1OTkwNjQ2Nl9hNzVmN2QxZjZiZTE3NTE4NDlkMC5wZGY=">Read the press note</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEntryThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-why-exclusion-of-women-votershttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-why-exclusion-of-women-voters<p>Scroll compared Bihar’s voter roll from January 2025 with the final roll published on September 30, after the Election Commission’s special intensive revision, and found women were removed in larger numbers than men. That left the state’s electorate with fewer women per thousand men than the state’s population as a whole. The article says the average fall in the electorate’s gender ratio is greatest in seats won by the Janata Dal (United) in 2020. It says Nitish Kumar’s support among women is thought to have helped the National Democratic Alliance win that election.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ayush Tiwari.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Scroll.in.</p> <p><a href="https://scroll.in/article/1087358/why-exclusion-of-women-voters-in-bihar-should-worry-nitish-kumar">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-the-rate-of-exclusion-forhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-the-rate-of-exclusion-for<p>Pavan Korada’s report in The Wire analyses constituency-wise data from the Election Commission’s special intensive revision of Bihar’s electoral rolls in 2025, a verification exercise that flagged voters for potential deletion. It found that voters with Muslim-sounding names made up 24.7% of those flagged but 32.1% of those finally removed, with the Seemanchal region the worst affected. The Commission, in a press note on September 30, called the drive a success.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Pavan Korada.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Wire.</p> <p><a href="https://m.thewire.in/article/rights/election-commission-bihar-special-intensive-revision-muslim-population-seemanchal">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-eci-skipped-fraud-detecting-softwarehttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-eci-skipped-fraud-detecting-software<p>The Reporters’ Collective reports that the Election Commission of India did not use its duplicate-checking software during Bihar’s revision of the voter roll. Officials in Delhi and four electoral registration officers in Bihar told its reporters that state teams had no access to it, and that suspect lists were not shared for verification. The article says manual checks at booths were left as the only safeguard, and that Bihar’s chief electoral officer, Vinod Singh Gunjiyal, did not answer emailed questions.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ayushi Kar and Vishnu Narayan.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Reporters’ Collective.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reporters-collective.in/newsletters/eci-skipped-fraud-detecting-software-in-bihar">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-sir-of-electoral-roll-wrthttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-sir-of-electoral-roll-wrt<p>The Election Commission’s letter of 27 October 2025 directs a Special Intensive Revision of the electoral roll in twelve states and union territories, with 1 January 2026 as the qualifying date. It extends the Commission’s order of 24 June 2025, with enumeration from 4 November to 4 December 2025, the draft roll on 9 December 2025 and the final roll on 7 February 2026. Where a voter’s form does not come back, the booth officer may ask the neighbours and note a probable reason, such as absence, a move or a death. No documents are to be collected from voters during the house-to-house survey.</p> <p><em>Letter</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Pawan Diwan.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/ceokerala/pdf/SIR/sir-12-states.pdf">Read the letter</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEntryThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-bihar-2025-in-11-seatshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-bihar-2025-in-11-seats<p>The Wire compares the voters taken off Bihar’s rolls in the pre-election special intensive revision with the winner’s margin in each constituency in the 2025 election, and finds seats where the deletions were larger. It keeps the overall shrinkage of the roll, which includes routine removals of people who died, were listed twice or moved away, apart from the deletions made after the draft roll was published. The names removed in that last phase, between the draft roll and the final roll, are the ones the Supreme Court asked about.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Pavan Korada.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Wire.</p> <p><a href="https://thewire.in/politics/bihar-2025-sir-deletions-outnumbered-victory-margins-11-seats">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-kerala-blo-suicide-unions-launchhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-kerala-blo-suicide-unions-launch<p>Booth-level officers across Kerala went on a one-day strike after Aneesh George, one of them, died by suicide during the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls. Unions blamed the workload for his death, and his family said the pressure of the revision caused his mental distress. Kannur’s district collector said no link had been shown between the revision duties and the death, and the state’s Chief Electoral Officer sent a condolence message.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Onmanorama Staff.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Onmanorama.</p> <p><a href="https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2025/11/17/kerala-blo-suicide-election-commission.html">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-he-didnt-sleep-for-dayshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-he-didnt-sleep-for-days<p>A ground report from Rajasthan on the second phase of the Special Intensive Revision, the voter roll revision that pressed government school teachers into booth-level electoral work. It follows Mukesh Jangid, a Jaipur teacher and booth-level officer who killed himself, and the note he left blaming sleepless nights and his supervisor’s threats of suspension. Booth-level officers in Rajasthan describe daily targets they cannot meet, while a teacher in Uttar Pradesh describes fieldwork and a pending syllabus, and the app works better for uploads at night, with glitches forcing repeated re-uploads.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Nootan Sharma.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to ThePrint.</p> <p><a href="https://theprint.in/ground-reports/sir-work-blo-teachers-suicide-work-pressure-rajasthan-up/2793029/">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-sir-under-fire-are-bloshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-sir-under-fire-are-blos<p>A news report on the row over booth-level officers, the local officials who carry out the revision of India’s voter rolls, during the second phase of the Special Intensive Revision. The Congress and the Trinamool Congress blame the Election Commission for the deaths of these officers, who assist in updating electoral rolls. West Bengal’s chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, demanded the revision be suspended, and sources in the Commission told ETV Bharat that the states’ chief electoral officers were looking into the deaths.</p> <p><em>News report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By ETV Bharat English Team and ETV Bharat.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to ETV Bharat.</p> <p><a href="https://www.etvbharat.com/en/bharat/sir-under-fire-are-blos-overburdened-across-12-states-uts-enn25120406230">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-what-election-commission-data-sayshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2025-what-election-commission-data-says<p>Opposition parties blamed vote chori, or vote theft, for their defeat in the 2025 Bihar Assembly election, and much of their suspicion centred on the Election Commission’s special intensive revision (SIR) of the state’s voter lists. Scroll analysed the commission’s data on the poll for red flags or anomalies, including whether the deletions changed the results, and found nothing significant. In the villages it had visited in the Seemanchal region during the revision, more votes were cast than before and the winners were broadly the same.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ayush Tiwari.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Scroll.in.</p> <p><a href="https://scroll.in/article/1089012/scroll_in">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-sir-20-draft-rolls-13https://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-sir-20-draft-rolls-13<p>The Election Commission’s second Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls has cut the draft lists across nine states and three Union Territories. The round follows the exercise’s first run in Bihar in 2025, and this Indian Express report gives the combined change across the 12 states and Union Territories and reports deletion figures for some of them. The categories behind the deletions include voters recorded as having moved away or not found at their address, names appearing in more than one place, and people who have died. The report also covers the notices now going to voters in Uttar Pradesh whose details could not be mapped.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Damini Nath.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Indian Express.</p> <p><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/uttar-pradesh-draft-roll-out-sir-2-0-draft-rolls-13-electors-deleted-in-nine-states-three-uts-10459223/">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-sir-disproportionately-excludes-migrants-muslimshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-sir-disproportionately-excludes-migrants-muslims<p>The Wire reports on a jury report about the special intensive revision (SIR) of India’s electoral rolls. The jury met at a convention in Delhi convened by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Bharat Jodo Abhiyaan and the National Alliance of People’s Movements, and heard testimony from across India. It found the revision was run hastily and fell disproportionately on migrants, Muslims, tribal people and women. The report also says many transgender people appear to have been left out of the SIR process.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Sharmita Kar.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Wire.</p> <p><a href="https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/sir-disproportionately-excludes-migrants-muslims-tribals-and-women-from-electoral-rolls-report">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-towards-automatic-voter-registration-lessonshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-towards-automatic-voter-registration-lessons<p>A report for the UK Democracy Fund on how Canada and Australia keep their voter registers from records the state already holds. Canada draws on about 40 federal and provincial sources, Australia on tax, immigration, driver and birth records, and neither has one master list of residents to work from. The report puts Australia’s roll at 97.6% of eligible voters, against 90.9% at the 2010 election, and Canada’s coverage at 96.2% in 2025.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Sonali Campion and Toby S. James and Holly Ann Garnett.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to UK Democracy Fund.</p> <p><a href="https://www.jrrt.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Towards-Automatic-Voter-Registration-Lessons-from-Canada-and-Australia-FINAL.pdf">The report</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-gujarat-sir-muslim-voters-sayhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-gujarat-sir-muslim-voters-say<p>The Wire reports from Salabatpura, a Muslim-majority area of Surat, where residents say a Bharatiya Janata Party corporator used Form 7, the objection form for a name on the electoral roll, to have living voters declared dead. The forms carry the name and mobile number of the corporator, Vikram Popat Patil, and the report says the signature on them matches his 2021 election affidavit. Patil denied the charge before disconnecting, and the complainants say the applications were made during the window for claims and objections in Gujarat’s Special Intensive Revision of the voter rolls, whose draft was published in December 2025.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ankit Raj. Translated by Naushin Rehman.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Wire.</p> <p><a href="https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/gujarat-sir-muslim-voters-says-bjp-corporator-removing-their-names-by-declaring-them-dead-through-form-7">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-press-note-no-ceo-pnhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-press-note-no-ceo-pn<p>A press note from the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, West Bengal, announces the publication of the state’s electoral roll during the final stages of the Special Intensive Revision. Booth-level officers handled the distribution and collection of forms themselves, and 58,20,899 forms were not received back. The final list carries 6.44 crore names, against 7,08,16,630 on the draft roll published in December 2025. Another 60.06 lakh doubtful and pending cases are marked “Under Adjudication” and will be added only if judicial officers approve them.</p> <p><em>Press note</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, West Bengal.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, West Bengal.</p> <p><a href="https://ceowestbengal.wb.gov.in/Downloads/News/Final%20Press%20Note%20CEO-PN-05-2026.pdf">Read the press note</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-beyond-special-how-the-2025https://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-beyond-special-how-the-2025<p>This analysis of the Election Commission’s ‘special intensive revision’ of Bihar’s voter rolls was published as the Supreme Court considered its verdict on the challenge to the exercise. The Commission cited urban growth, migration, unreported deaths and the removal of people it calls ‘illegal immigrants’, and says the ‘special’ label falls within its powers. The article traces the long history of roll revision and argues the Bihar exercise departs from the rule that a voter is presumed to stay enrolled.</p> <p><em>Analysis</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Debjani M.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Supreme Court Observer.</p> <p><a href="https://www.scobserver.in/journal/beyond-special-how-the-2025-bihar-sir-marks-a-break-from-the-past/">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-more-women-deleted-from-rollshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-more-women-deleted-from-rolls<p>The Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision, an exercise to update voter lists across 12 States and Union Territories, is the subject of this data article. It compares the number of women for every 1,000 men on the 2024 Lok Sabha rolls with the same ratio on the final rolls after the revision. Bihar’s ratio fell from 907 to 892, and Tamil Nadu’s rose from 1,034 to 1,044, the only major State where the ratio improved.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Devyanshi Bihani and Srinivasan Ramani.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Hindu.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thehindu.com/data/more-women-deleted-from-rolls-in-most-states-after-sir/article70727785.ece">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-the-murshidabad-files-why-thousandshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-the-murshidabad-files-why-thousands<p>This ground report from Murshidabad shows how the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision, under which voters under review underwent document verification, worked in one district. Supplementary lists released in March removed large numbers of voters who had been marked ‘under adjudication’ at polling stations in the Raninagar and Samserganj constituencies, weeks before the 2026 West Bengal assembly election. The writer speaks to residents who said their names, or their family members’ names, were excluded despite submitting documents. The writer also speaks to booth-level officers who say they do not know why, and to a human rights worker who describes a muted public response.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Kibria Ansary.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to eNewsroom India.</p> <p><a href="https://enewsroom.in/murshidabad-files-voter-deletion-sir-bengal-election-commission/">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-inside-the-special-intensive-revisionhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-inside-the-special-intensive-revision<p>A training manual and ground report on the Special Intensive Revision, with advice for voters on notices, hearings and appeals. Citizens for Justice and Peace and Vote for Democracy prepared it, and their teams report from West Bengal, Assam, and from Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. The handbook argues that a hurried revision left voters to prove their eligibility. It counts 1.40 crore people under notice in West Bengal, and 68,12,711 names deleted in Gujarat, 15.47% of that state’s electorate.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) and Vote for Democracy (VFD).</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) &amp; Vote for Democracy (VFD).</p> <p><a href="https://votefordemocracy.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/260406-INSIDE-THE-SPECIAL-INTENSIVE-REVISION-SIR.pdf">The report</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-significant-net-addition-cloud-overhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-significant-net-addition-cloud-over<p>Uttar Pradesh’s chief electoral officer published the final roll of the state’s special intensive revision on 10 April 2026, after an exercise in which every voter was issued a fresh enumeration form. The finished roll added more names than it deleted, and the gender ratio improved. Manish Shukla of the BJP told The Wire that only people who had died, moved or held duplicate entries were removed, while the Samajwadi Party says errors remain and wants the rules for appeals published.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Akanksha Kumar.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Wire.</p> <p><a href="https://m.thewire.in/article/government/women-voters-decline-significant-net-addition-five-points-emerge-from-the-uttar-pradesh-sirs-final-figures">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-muslims-the-target-fury-ashttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-muslims-the-target-fury-as<p>Al Jazeera reports from West Bengal before the state’s assembly election. The revision of the roll left more than nine million people unable to vote: about six million declared absent or dead, and three million waiting for tribunals. The article follows families affected by deletions in Gobindapur, Gobra and Balki villages, including people whose documents were in place, and what the revision put them through. An analysis by the SABAR Institute found Muslims were a far larger share of those deleted in two constituencies than of the population. The Election Commission says the revision aims to remove duplicate or deceased voters and add people left out of the list.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ritwika Mitra.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Al Jazeera.</p> <p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/16/muslims-the-target-fury-as-millions-lose-voting-rights-in-indias-bengal">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-west-bengal-sir-row-echttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-west-bengal-sir-row-ec<p>This Herald Goa news report sets out the Election Commission’s figures from after the 2026 West Bengal assembly election, where the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls had run. It says the largest deletions fell in the Malda and Murshidabad belt, yet many of the seats with the most deletions voted for the parties that had fought the revision hardest. It reports the Commission’s position that the revision was meant to remove duplicate names and those of people who had moved or died.</p> <p><em>News report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Team Herald.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Herald Goa.</p> <p><a href="https://www.heraldgoa.in/?p=474206">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-west-bengal-sir-deleted-votershttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-west-bengal-sir-deleted-voters<p>This report covers a further hearing on the Special Intensive Revision of West Bengal’s electoral rolls, a week after the state’s assembly election results. Petitioners said that in at least 31 constituencies the winner’s margin was smaller than the number of deletions still under challenge. The bench replied that claims about how the deletions shaped results would need a separate application, and it is waiting to hear from the Calcutta High Court’s Chief Justice about appeals still pending.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Namrata Banerjee.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Supreme Court Observer.</p> <p><a href="https://www.scobserver.in/reports/west-bengal-sir-deleted-voters-outnumber-victory-margins-petitioners-argue/">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-sir-of-electoral-rollhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-sir-of-electoral-roll<p>The Election Commission wrote to the Chief Electoral Officers of states and union territories including Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka on 14 May 2026, directing a fresh Special Intensive Revision of their voter rolls. The exercise began in Bihar in 2025 under a Commission order for the whole country, and this letter sets the qualifying date and timetable for each state it names. It attaches a modified Enumeration Form for existing electors in these states to complete. Booth-wise lists of electors whose forms were not returned and whose names are not in the draft roll will be displayed at panchayat and urban local body offices, with probable reasons such as absent, shifted, death or duplicate. Secretary Pawan Diwan signed it.</p> <p><em>Scheme</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p><a href="https://www.eci.gov.in/eci-backend/public/api/download?url=LMAhAK6sOPBp%2FNFF0iRfXbEB1EVSLT41NNLRjYNJJP1KivrUxbfqkDatmHy12e%2FztfbUTpXSxLP8g7dpVrk7%2FXIGEVivLkwVQ85T3PXRW3kywtCOyYVgrQT1c%2Bno6H1ldOFtn933icz0MOeiesxvsQ%3D%3D">Read the order</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTSchemes and campaignsThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-association-for-democratic-reforms-orshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-association-for-democratic-reforms-ors<p>The Supreme Court’s judgment on the Special Intensive Revision of Bihar’s electoral roll, in which voters had to return an enumeration form to stay on the draft roll. The court upheld the exercise under Section 21(3) of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, and held that the Commission may examine citizenship only to decide enrolment. Nearly 65 lakh electors were left off the draft roll for not returning the form, and the roll fell from 7.89 crore to 7.42 crore in the final roll.</p> <p><em>Supreme Court judgment</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Surya Kant.</p> <p><a href="https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2025/35785/35785_2025_1_1501_71617_Judgement_27-May-2026.pdf">Read the judgment</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaw and courtsThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-bihar-sir-judgement-three-doctrinalhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-bihar-sir-judgement-three-doctrinal<p>V. Venkatesan reads the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the Special Intensive Revision, the Election Commission’s re-check of Bihar’s voter rolls, and finds three gaps in the reasoning that supports it. He writes that the judgment relies on a 2024 citizenship ruling for its holding that the right to vote may be limited, and passes over the half that bars restricting it by when citizenship was acquired. He also finds that it accepts the Commission’s reasons for re-doing the rolls on trust, and that it distinguishes a 1995 precedent which, he writes, concerned in substance the same kind of exercise.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By V. Venkatesan.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Supreme Court Observer.</p> <p><a href="https://www.scobserver.in/journal/bihar-sir-judgement-three-doctrinal-gaps/">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-sir-removal-from-electoral-rollhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-sir-removal-from-electoral-roll<p>Live Law reports on a Supreme Court hearing about the Special Intensive Revision in West Bengal, the process of revising the state’s electoral rolls. The court repeated that a name taken off the roll does not by itself end a person’s citizenship. It said that for someone removed on doubtful-citizenship grounds, the Commission must refer the matter to the Ministry for adjudication under the Citizenship Act. The petitioner, Prasenjit Bose, wants the appeals process made easier to use, and his counsel said West Bengal had issued orders stopping ration and welfare benefits for people whose names were deleted.</p> <p><em>News report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Debby Jain.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Live Law.</p> <p><a href="https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-west-bengal-sir-citizenship-not-lost-on-exclusion-from-electoral-roll-eci-must-write-to-centre-for-its-decision-541713">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-ecis-special-intensive-revision-ofhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-ecis-special-intensive-revision-of<p>This is a written reply in the Lok Sabha by the Union Minister of Law and Justice, Arjun Ram Meghwal, carried by the Press Information Bureau on 25 July 2026. It sets out the phases of the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls: Bihar before the 2025 assembly election, then nine states and three union territories from October 2025 to April 2026. The reply lists the safeguards against wrongful deletion, saying booth-level officers must make a minimum of two-three attempts before treating an elector as untraceable, and that the Supreme Court upheld the exercise on 27 May 2026.</p> <p><em>Press release</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p><a href="https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2289473&reg=48&lang=1">Read the release</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEntryThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-sir-draft-rolls-see-overhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-sir-draft-rolls-see-over<p>The Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision, known as the SIR, requires every registered elector to submit an enumeration form, map themselves to the previous intensive-revision roll, and submit documents to establish eligibility. It began with Bihar in June 2025, and draft rolls have dropped over 13 crore names across 30 states and union territories, or 14.1% of the pre-SIR rolls. The third phase dropped 6.15 crore names in 17 states and union territories. Delhi’s draft left out 32.80% of its electors and Maharashtra’s left out 21.1%. People wrongly cut from the draft can ask within a month to be put back on the final roll.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Damini Nath.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Indian Express.</p> <p><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/election-commission-sir-draft-rolls-13-crore-deletions-delhi-leads-10857760/">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-sir-in-delhi-as-onehttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-sir-in-delhi-as-one<p>Sagrika Rajora, a lawyer and trade union activist, writes as a member of Voter Adhikar Manch, a citizens’ collective that helped Delhi voters through the Special Intensive Revision, the Election Commission’s re-check of the electoral rolls. The enumeration phase ran from 30 June to 17 August 2026, after two deadline extensions. The draft roll published on 31 August left out 47.7 lakh of the city’s 1.45 crore registered voters, one-third of the electorate. She follows people who never got a form, who were marked shifted or absent, or who were told to enrol afresh as first-time voters.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Sagrika Rajora.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Wire.</p> <p><a href="https://m.thewire.in/article/rights/sir-in-delhi-as-one-third-of-the-voters-left-out-field-notes-from-a-haywire-process">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-we-saw-the-biases-inhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-we-saw-the-biases-in<p>A booth level officer in West Bengal describes, in her own words, the months she spent on the Special Intensive Revision of the voter rolls. She was trained on an app that was still being built, typed forms late into the night while it crashed, and watched voters bring passports and certificates and still be disbelieved. It belongs in this Long View because it shows the exercise from the side of the officers who did the work, with no clear rules to follow.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Aditi*.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to BehanBox.</p> <p><a href="https://behanbox.com/2026/09/01/we-saw-the-biases-in-the-sir-process-but-were-too-overwhelmed-to-do-anything-about-it/">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-west-bengal-sir-37-lakhhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-west-bengal-sir-37-lakh<p>West Bengal’s appellate tribunals, which hear appeals over the revision of the state’s voter rolls, have decided 1,02,231 of the 38,20,683 appeals filed with them, and 37,18,452 are still pending. The Election Commission gave the Supreme Court these figures in an affidavit filed on 16 September, and said it had disposed of roughly 2.68% of the appeals. It did not say how many of the appeals came from people left off the rolls and how many challenged additions to them, which is the break-up the Court had asked for.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Debby Jain.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Live Law.</p> <p><a href="https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-west-bengal-sir-eci-affidavit-over-37-lakh-appeals-pending-before-appellate-tribunals-550768">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-14-times-in-10-monthshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-14-times-in-10-months<p>Two of the three members of the Election Commission, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, filed at least 14 written objections in 10 months, The Indian Express reports. The objections, the paper says, concerned the Special Intensive Revision of the voter rolls: a changed new-voter form, access to the roll database by state election officials, and appeals against voters in West Bengal. The paper says the Commission, led by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, did not respond to its questions, and calls the rift unprecedented.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ritika Chopra.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Indian Express.</p> <p><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/express-exclusive/election-commission-sir-14-objections-gyanesh-kumar-sukhbir-singh-sandhu-vivek-joshi-10889737/">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-election-commissioners-knocked-on-cabinethttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-election-commissioners-knocked-on-cabinet<p>The Election Commission’s new platform, ECINet, was built to hold the apps and portals that run its work under one roof. This Indian Express report describes how Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi objected that centralised control over who can use the software was restricting the powers the law gives electoral-roll officers. Each wrote separately to the Cabinet Secretary, a step the report calls without precedent.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ritika Chopra and Damini Nath.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Indian Express.</p> <p><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/express-exclusive/election-commission-special-intensive-revision-sir-electoral-roll-centralisation-eci-ecinet-10889738/">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-illegal-unauthorised-election-commissioners-objectedhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-illegal-unauthorised-election-commissioners-objected<p>Two of the three Election Commissioners objected on file to a new declaration in Form 6, the form a first-time voter fills to get on the roll. The declaration asked applicants to say whether their own name was on the roll of the last intensive revision, in the early 2000s, whether a parent’s or grandparent’s was, or whether neither was. Working from the Commission’s internal records, the article details what the two members recorded on file, and how the change stayed online after Sandhu called it “unauthorised/ illegal”.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ritika Chopra.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Indian Express.</p> <p><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/express-exclusive/election-commission-illegal-changes-form-6-gyanesh-kumar-10889714/">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-inside-the-election-commission-investigationhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-inside-the-election-commission-investigation<p>A video report from The Indian Express on the split inside the Election Commission during the Special Intensive Revision, which the video says removed more than 13 crore names from draft voter rolls. The presenter, drawing on Ritika Chopra’s reporting, says Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi recorded at least 14 objections in ten months against decisions and orders they said were taken without them. The captions are machine-made, so names and numbers may be misheard.</p> <p><em>Video</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ritika Chopra and Shaini Iyer.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Indian Express.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsVh7z4c6Io">Watch the report</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-press-notehttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-press-note<p>The Election Commission’s press note of 23 September 2026, signed by Deputy Director P. Pawan, says that singling out internal notes from ten months, while overlooking the many approvals and decisions, shows only part of the picture. It says differing views and observations are normal deliberation before a final decision, and that official orders and directions follow statutory procedures under the 2023 Act on the appointment of the election commissioners. The note also points to around 40 new initiatives, a nationwide revision of the electoral rolls, including the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), and elections in Bihar, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Assam and West Bengal.</p> <p><em>Press note</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p><a href="https://www.eci.gov.in/eci/public/api/document?id=17531">Read the press note</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEntryThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-what-election-commission-rift-revealshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-what-election-commission-rift-reveals<p>Two of the three Election Commissioners, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, recorded in writing that they were not consulted about decisions issued in the Election Commission’s name. This Indian Express report follows those objections into the voter roll itself. Software controlled from the Commission’s headquarters in Delhi did not allow the Electoral Registration Officer in Goa to record his decisions. The report also covers a change to the form new voters must fill. It sets this dissent beside earlier disputes inside the Commission, including Ashok Lavasa’s in 2019.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ritika Chopra.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Indian Express.</p> <p><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/express-exclusive/election-commission-gyanesh-kumar-sukhbir-sandhu-vivek-joshi-electoral-roll-control-systems-10889773/">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-8-emails-in-7-dayshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-8-emails-in-7-days<p>With Goa’s final roll under the Special Intensive Revision due, the state’s Chief Electoral Officer wrote to the Election Commission in Delhi again and again, asking that his officers be allowed to reverse earlier deletions. The Indian Express found that the electors those officers had cleared stayed off the list. It shows who held the power over a name on the roll.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ritika Chopra.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Indian Express.</p> <p><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/express-exclusive/election-commission-goa-sir-voter-deletion-ecinet-10891422/">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-election-commission-investigation-ritika-choprahttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-election-commission-investigation-ritika-chopra<p>Ritika Chopra, The Indian Express’s National Affairs Editor, answers viewer questions about the paper’s investigation into the Election Commission. She explains that the three election commissioners are meant to decide together, by consensus or majority, and describes objections by two of them about decisions they say were taken without them. She also describes a ‘logical discrepancy’ category she says the current commissioners introduced to flag voters for further checks. The captions were made automatically, so names and numbers may be misheard.</p> <p><em>Video</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ritika Chopra.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Indian Express.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfkv8gFBRFk">Watch the video</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-bengals-voter-deletion-requests-werehttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-bengals-voter-deletion-requests-were<p>The Wire works through constituency-level data the Election Commission filed in the Supreme Court in a case brought by Prasenjit Bose, a Congress leader and public-interest petitioner. The tables cover claims and objections in West Bengal from December 2025 to August 2026. Requests to delete a name reached a decision far more often than requests to add one, and almost every decided deletion went through, while fewer than half of decided additions did. Someone who has never been registered can apply only on Form 6, the form that failed most.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Aparna Bhattacharya.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Wire.</p> <p><a href="https://m.thewire.in/article/rights/bengals-voter-deletion-requests-were-processed-faster-than-inclusion">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-ex-election-commissioner-ashok-lavasahttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-ex-election-commissioner-ashok-lavasa<p>Newslaundry’s NL Hafta asks Ashok Lavasa, a former election commissioner, about the Special Intensive Revision of the voter rolls, and its machine-made captions may mishear names and numbers. He argues the Election Commission could not change Form 6 even if all three commissioners agreed, because that needed the government’s approval. In the Goa case, he says it makes no difference whether a machine problem or a human problem stopped officers from adding back voters they had cleared.</p> <p><em>Video</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By newslaundry.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to newslaundry.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQkkk6eVrAE">Watch the video</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-t-n-seshan-n-gopalaswamihttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-t-n-seshan-n-gopalaswami<p>This explainer from The Indian Express is about disagreement inside the three-member Election Commission of India, where the majority view decides a matter when the members differ. It follows the paper’s investigation, published on September 23, which found two commissioners had objected at least 14 times in 10 months, about matters including the commission’s computer systems and the voter enrolment form. The Commission says such observations made during drafting are part of its deliberation, and that its decisions in recent months were unanimous.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Damini Nath.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Indian Express.</p> <p><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/election-commission-india-cec-election-commissioners-dissent-10894190/">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-the-meeting-of-the-commissionhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-the-meeting-of-the-commission<p>The Election Commission’s press note of 26 September 2026 records the decisions of its meeting that afternoon, most of them about the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter rolls. It says the revision is complete in 20 states and union territories, including Bihar and West Bengal, and that anyone whose name was left out can still apply to be added. Booth-level officers will visit the homes of people who got notices during the revision for being unmapped or for logical discrepancies, collect their papers and upload them to the ECINet system. Delhi and Maharashtra get more time to file claims and objections.</p> <p><em>Press note</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p><a href="https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2315309&reg=3&lang=1">Read the press note</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEntryThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-these-are-just-by-electionshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-these-are-just-by-elections<p>A lawyer asked the Supreme Court to hear the West Bengal voter-roll cases urgently, ahead of by-elections in Rejinagar and Nandigram. The Chief Justice declined, and the court said it would hear the matter on the date already listed, a day before the bypolls begin.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Debby Jain.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Live Law.</p> <p><a href="https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-these-are-just-bye-elections-cji-declines-urgent-hearing-of-west-bengal-sir-cases-ahead-of-rejinagar-bypolls-552063">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-ec-exposed-but-no-freshhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-ec-exposed-but-no-fresh<p>A Newslaundry report asked the lawyers who argued the challenges to the Special Intensive Revision what The Indian Express investigation, which reported objections from election commissioners, changed for them. Some of them say it gives no fresh ground in court, and they question the Commission’s power to change Form 6 or to ask for a family link to the 2002 roll. The Commission says its decisions were unanimous, and it has set up a panel to review whether its software follows the law.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ashwine Kumar Singh and Khushi Mehrotra.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Newslaundry.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newslaundry.com/2026/09/29/ec-exposed-but-no-fresh-ground-to-challenge-sir-lawyers-on-legal-fallout-of-ie-report">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-from-mandir-chori-to-votehttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-from-mandir-chori-to-vote<p>Muqtedar Khan, a professor of international relations, argues in Frontline that the Election Commission’s handling of the voter roll is the latest example of a wider loss of public trust in the government. He cites the Indian Express’s report that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi put objections on record about decisions taken without their knowledge, though the Commission said its decisions were ultimately unanimous. The piece also describes the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), in which flagged voters must show they belong on the roll, and asks that wrongly excluded people be put back on it.</p> <p><em>Opinion</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Muqtedar Khan.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Frontline.</p> <p><a href="https://frontline.thehindu.com/politics/india-eci-election-commission-crisis-special-intensive-revision-vote-chori/article71519424.ece">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-of-those-deleted-in-sirhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-of-those-deleted-in-sir<p>The Election Commission’s data, reported here, break down the names cut from the electoral rolls in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) into three groups: the absent, shifted or ‘others’ category, deaths, and multiple entries. The first group is the largest, and many of those names could potentially come back. Form 6, the form the Commission normally uses for new registrations, has also been used during the SIR to re-enter people it had struck off. The Congress, and many in civil society and the Opposition, have demanded that all the deleted names be added back.</p> <p><em>News report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Sreeparna Chakrabarty.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Hindu.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/of-those-deleted-in-sir-so-far-over-71-in-absent-shifted-or-others-category/article71524969.ece">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-who-controls-your-right-tohttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-who-controls-your-right-to<p>Ashok Lavasa’s opinion piece takes up the Indian Express investigation into the Election Commission of India, and asks what the Commission must answer about the Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls. Who controls the roll, and could the Commission alone change Form 6, the form a first-time voter fills to enrol? He argues that changing the rules behind it needs the government’s approval and must be laid before Parliament. He also asks why an electoral registration officer in Goa was denied access to ECINet, the Commission’s software for the roll. And who authorised appeals against voters whose names had already been accepted in West Bengal.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Ashok Lavasa.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Newslaundry.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newslaundry.com/2026/09/30/who-controls-your-right-to-vote-four-questions-the-eci-must-answer">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-election-boycott-should-indias-oppositionhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-election-boycott-should-indias-opposition<p>Debasish Roy Chowdhury argues in this Frontline article that opposition parties should stop fighting elections they call rigged, and boycott them instead. He writes as the idea of a boycott gains ground after the row over the Chief Election Commissioner and the revision of the electoral rolls. The piece weighs what the opposition loses if it stays in and what it loses if it walks out.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Debasish Roy Chowdhury.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Frontline.</p> <p><a href="https://frontline.thehindu.com/politics/gyanesh-kumar-eci-election-boycott/article71532567.ece">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-karnataka-sir-over-4000-applicationshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-karnataka-sir-over-4000-applications<p>Scroll.in reports what The Hindu found in Karnataka’s special intensive revision, the re-checking of the electoral roll that this Long View follows. Most of the applications to delete voters named Muslims, and in two cases The Hindu found already-filled, printed objection forms, with only the objector’s name written by hand. The article also describes party booth agents in Delhi filing more forms than the rules allow, through a portal that cannot enforce the limit.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Scroll Staff.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Scroll.in.</p> <p><a href="https://scroll.in/latest/1096130/karnataka-sir-over-4000-applications-to-delete-voters-mostly-muslims-says-report">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-after-13-crore-names-droppedhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-after-13-crore-names-dropped<p>The Election Commission has told officials in 20 states and Union Territories where its Special Intensive Revision of the voters’ list is over to run a special drive to enrol people left out. People left out unjustly can come back through Form 6, the form any new voter fills, which in these states drops the declaration introduced in July about whether the applicant or their parents stayed on the roll. The Commission is under pressure over 13 crore names taken off draft rolls across the country. The order also follows a report that two Election Commissioners, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, objected on record to decisions taken without their knowledge.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Vallabh Ozarkar and Ritika Chopra.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Indian Express.</p> <p><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/election-commission-of-india-sir-left-out-voters-special-drive-10903082/">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-as-a-bengal-seat-goeshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-as-a-bengal-seat-goes<p>Anant Gupta reports from Rejinagar in Murshidabad, a Bengal seat where a bye-election is due on 6 October. Many residents lost their names in the special intensive revision of the electoral roll, and they are waiting for Supreme Court-appointed tribunals to hear their appeals. In all of Rejinagar, four appeals were decided in six months. A farmer who worked in Bihar when he was young now fears being sent to Bangladesh, and a woman who rolls beedis fears the same for her husband.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Anant Gupta.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Scroll.in.</p> <p><a href="https://scroll.in/article/1096123/as-a-bengal-seat-goes-to-bye-polls-sir-deleted-voters-are-stuck-in-limbo">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-karnataka-sir-ec-says-ithttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-karnataka-sir-ec-says-it<p>Karnataka’s chief electoral officer, V Anbu Kumar, said legal action would be started against anyone found filing Form 7 applications in bulk to remove voters during the Special Intensive Revision. Form 7 is the form by which a person can seek the removal of a voter’s name from the roll. The Hindu reported that most of the 4,000 requests to remove voters from Karnataka’s rolls targeted Muslims. DK Shivakumar called off a protest outside the officer’s office after the announcement. For the BJP, its state chief BY Vijayendra defended asking the Commission to check voters whose eligibility was in doubt.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Sara Varghese.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Scroll.in.</p> <p><a href="https://scroll.in/latest/1096146/karnataka-sir-ec-says-it-will-take-action-against-bulk-applications-to-delete-voters">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-sir-amounts-to-vote-thefthttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-sir-amounts-to-vote-theft<p>A news report on a protest in Bengaluru by the All India Students’ Association, which wants Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar arrested over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter rolls. In the protesters’ count, the revision kept more than 13 crore names off draft rolls in the states where it was held. They also argued that key decisions on it were pushed through without the other two Election Commissioners’ approval.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By The Hindu Bureau.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Hindu.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/sir-amounts-to-vote-theft-say-protesters-in-bengaluru/article71537995.ece">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-sir-eci-asks-blos-tohttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-sir-eci-asks-blos-to<p>The Election Commission told the Chief Electoral Officers of States and Union Territories where the Special Intensive Revision is done or underway to compare the rolls from before it with the current ones. They are to re-enrol eligible people who were left out within about a month. Booth Level Officers are to visit homes, note each person’s present status and file Form 6, the enrolment application, for those found eligible. A former chief election commissioner, S.Y. Quraishi, says Form 6 is only for new voters and cannot be used by someone who was deleted.</p> <p><em>News report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By The Hindu Bureau.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Hindu.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sir-eci-asks-blos-to-revisit-deleted-list-ensure-those-eligible-but-left-out-are-re-enrolled-within-a-month/article71535882.ece">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-terms-of-trade-sir-demonetisationhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-terms-of-trade-sir-demonetisation<p>Roshan Kishore, Hindustan Times’s data and political economy editor, argues in his weekly column that the Special Intensive Revision of the voter rolls repeats the pattern of demonetisation. A promised purge became a procedural tangle, and the legal questions were settled only after they had stopped mattering. His column also draws on the newsroom’s analysis of roll data, in which the heaviest deletions come at the first stage and later steps add voters back.</p> <p><em>Opinion</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Roshan Kishore.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Hindustan Times.</p> <p><a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/editors-pick/terms-of-trade-sir-demonetisation-and-d-j-vu-101790931313216.html">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-up-sir-how-women-migrantshttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-up-sir-how-women-migrants<p>This second of a two-part report in The Federal covers Uttar Pradesh’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR), a voter-roll revision with a documentation-heavy verification process. Civil rights groups told The Federal that the process hit vulnerable people, including women, migrant workers and displaced families. Some women struggled to trace their parents’ decades-old voting records, some migrant workers were away from home for seasonal work, and in Lucknow’s Akbarpur area, displaced families had proof of a previous residence that no longer existed. The Election Commission defends the revision as a cleanup of duplicate, deceased and permanently migrated entries.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Siddharth Tiwari.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Federal.</p> <p><a href="https://thefederal.com/category/states/north/uttar-pradesh/up-sir-women-migrants-displaced-slum-dwellers-worst-sufferers-258269">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-beyond-cleaning-voter-rolls-thehttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-beyond-cleaning-voter-rolls-the<p>An opinion piece by the independent researcher Srinivas Kodali on the digital systems the Election Commission uses for India’s voter rolls. He writes that the Special Intensive Revision aims to create a centralised mapping of people and their family networks, usually through Aadhaar, which links a person to their family and to their records in other government systems. Under electoral law, he writes, a constituency’s Electoral Registration Officer has the last word on its roll, and he asks whether that rule survives in ERONET, built by Tata Consultancy Services.</p> <p><em>Opinion</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Srinivas Kodali.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to Newslaundry.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newslaundry.com/2026/10/03/beyond-cleaning-voter-rolls-the-digital-machinery-behind-sir">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-hyderabad-muslim-voters-say-bjphttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-hyderabad-muslim-voters-say-bjp<p>A booth level agent for the Bharatiya Janata Party, a party appointee who helps voters at a polling booth, is accused of filing Form 7 applications against his Muslim neighbours in Chikkadapally, Hyderabad, The News Minute reports. A Form 7 asks for a name to be removed from the electoral roll; it does not remove it. The article says none of the grounds for deletion applied to the people listed, though no action has been taken against the agent. Mohammad Baba Sharfuddin, a Congress booth agent among them, confronted him, election officials held inquiries, and the Congress complained to Telangana’s Chief Electoral Officer.</p> <p><em>Reporting</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Anjana Meenakshi and Bharathy Singaravel.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The News Minute.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/telangana/hyderabad-muslim-voters-say-bjp-bla-sought-their-deletion-despite-knowing-them-since-childhood">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-obstacle-race-on-special-intensivehttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-obstacle-race-on-special-intensive<p>An editorial in The Hindu on the Special Intensive Revision, the Election Commission’s re-examination of India’s electoral rolls. It reports that many electors were deleted from the draft rolls first and verified later, and that the Commission’s own members objected to changes in procedure. The paper argues the exercise obstructs universal adult franchise, and that the two Election Commissioners could have overruled the Chief Election Commissioner.</p> <p><em>Editorial</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By The Hindu.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Hindu.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/obstacle-race-on-special-intensive-revision-exercise/article71537443.ece">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter listhttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-yogendra-yadav-neha-bora-amonghttps://lifeinindia.org/long-view/7-sir-voter-list-india/#e-2026-yogendra-yadav-neha-bora-among<p>A report on the second day of detentions in Delhi, where people marching to Jantar Mantar to demand the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, were stopped by police and put on buses. Among those held were Neha Bora and Yogendra Yadav, and those present included the Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal and the advocate Prashant Bhushan. Police said they had not granted permission for the protest, and the report records prohibitory orders in the New Delhi district, layers of barricades in Central Delhi, and three FIRs the police registered over Friday’s protest.</p> <p><em>Report</em> · added 03.10.2026</p> <p>By Sukrita Baruah.</p> <p>Excerpt quoted for review under section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957. The report belongs to The Indian Express.</p> <p><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/jantar-mantar-protest-yogendra-yadav-kapil-sibal-neha-bora-detained-cec-gyanesh-kumar-10905302/">Read the article</a></p>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTReportingThe voter list