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.
Responding to protests by all 1,100 voters of a single village in East Burdwan's Katwa sub-division, who had been served summons for hearings in the second phase of the SIR process, the district electoral officer has agreed to set up hearing centres in their village instead of the one 10 km away, where they were initially called.
Jagadguru Swami Sri Nischalananda Saraswati, the 145 Shankaracharya of the Govardhan Peeth in Puri, on Tuesday expressed concern over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, urging that not a single eligible voter’s name be deleted in the process.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday wrote for the fifth time to the Election Commission of India (ECI), alleging widespread harassment of voters and serious administrative lapses in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Samajwadi Party (SP) National President Akhilesh Yadav Sunday raised serious questions about the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list in Uttar Pradesh.
Placing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls at the centre of its 2026 Assembly election campaign, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of panicking over a clean voter list and attempting to undermine constitutional institutions to retain power.
