Odisha's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, aimed at ensuring a more accurate, transparent and error-free voter database, has gathered significant momentum, with the statewide exercise successfully entering its fifth day on Wednesday.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday inaugurated the second National Conference of Counsels representing the poll body at the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM), with a strong focus on electoral transparency, procedural safeguards and legal preparedness.
Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government is constructing a ‘leak-proof security grid,’ and wherever physical fencing is difficult, an impenetrable security cordon by deploying technological fencing is being established.
Maharashtra State Congress Committee President Harshwardhan Sapkal wrote to Maharashtra State Chief Electoral Officer S Chokalingam requesting that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) not be conducted during the Pandharpur Wari pilgrimage due to expected heavy rainfall.
The Court further said, “The consequence of such a determination is correspondingly limited.
According to commission sources, notices specifying dates and venues were issued to nearly 32 lakh ‘no-mapping’ voters.
West Bengal's ruling Trinamul Congress MLA Manirul Islam on Friday wrote to the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) in charge of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, clarifying that his remarks during the 14 January protest at the Farakka BDO office were not intended to undermine the commission or influence the electoral process.
The Election Commission of India has directed all the special observers that documents of all voters summoned for hearings under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal must be examined thoroughly, with no room for negligence.
With the Supreme Court ordering greater transparency in West Bengal’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, the state’s electoral discourse has turned combative and confrontational.
Sadeka Biwi, the 90-year-old mother of Birbhum Zilla Parishad Sabhadhipati and senior Trinamul Congress (TMC) leader from Nanoor, Kajal Sheikh, has been summoned for a hearing under the Special Intensive Review (SIR) by the Election Commission of India (ECI).
