Special one-day SIR camp at all polling booths in Punjab on July 19
The house-to-house enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is currently underway across Punjab and will continue until August 3.
The house-to-house enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is currently underway across Punjab and will continue until August 3.
The Election Commission of India’s recent announcement of by-elections to three Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal, which fell vacant following the resignations of Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik — the three Trinamool Congress MPs who stepped down after the party’s debacle in the recent West Bengal Assembly elections — has brought the focus back on the former MPs and the BJP’s plans for them.
"The Election Commission has heard our case today, and now we are waiting. We are in our fight," Natarajan told reporters in Delhi.
The 1998-batch IAS officer of the West Bengal cadre is replacing Manoj Kumar Agarwal, who was earlier appointed as the state's new Chief Secretary.
According to officials, Punjab currently has around 2.14 crore registered voters, and the revision exercise aims to update the electoral database ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections in the state.
The declaration was adopted during the valedictory session at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, committing participating EMBs to collective action across five core areas: Purity of Electoral Rolls, Conduct of Elections, Research and Publications, Use of Technology, and Training and Capacity Building.
Conceived by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar along with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, ECINET aims to elevate transparency, efficiency, and public confidence in managing elections across the world’s largest democracy.
A day after the Supreme Court directed the Election Commission of India to publish the list of voters in West Bengal with logical discrepancies, there are strong indications that the poll body is likely to make public the list of "no-mapping" or unmapped voters.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) today directed the West Bengal government and other state authorities to strictly implement the Supreme Court’s 19 January order related to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2026.
In a specially organised Reception Ceremony, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India Gyanesh Kumar, along with Election Commissioners (ECs) Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, welcomed nearly 60 international delegates.
