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.
A Congress party delegation led by party's state president Harshvardhan Sapkal met the Maharashtra State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) S Chokalingam submitted a memorandum for the implementation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters' lists in the state, in the fairest possible manner.
The apex court directed the ECI to deploy Central forces for the protection of judicial officers engaged in the SIR of electoral rolls after they were gheraoed by the protesters against the deletion of their names from the electoral rolls for several hours in the Malda district on Wednesday evening.
Of the 40 lakh cases, whose judicial adjudication process had been completed till Sunday evening, a total of around 18 lakh cases have been classified as eligible for exclusion.
The Election Commission of India today introduced more stringent rules for re-polling.
The Election Commission of India released the second supplementary list of ‘under consideration’ voters as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in West Bengal on Friday late night.
