At conclave on ‘One Nation-One Election, Federalism and Citizenship’, former Election Commissioner raised several points regarding special intensive revision of electoral rolls.
Can absence of name from electoral roll be reason to deny citizen rights unrelated to an election? SC said in May that SIR is not a conclusive adjudication of citizenship.
There were 15.44 cr voters when electoral rolls were frozen in October 2025. EC has released final numbers now, pegging the number of voters in India’s most populous state at 13.40 crore.
There are a total of 2,49,58,139 voters in the final voter list published Tuesday, a 0.97 percent decrease as compared to the draft list released in December.
Election Commission said claims & objections regarding draft electoral roll can be filed after 1 Sept deadline, but will be considered after electoral roll is finalised.
The hoo-ha about the Election Commission, about electoral rolls, and about EVMs suggests that irksome comic relief remains a part of the loud debates of our robust democracy.
SC was hearing petitions raising concerns over the Special Intensive Revision exercise being undertaken in the poll-bound state & the 11-document list being accepted by ECI.
Considerations to use voter information to make Covid-19 vaccine priority lists show the importance of voter list reforms on India’s 10th National Voters’ Day.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
The whole SIR should’ve been made illegal.
Modi and Shah have turned out to be financially and morally corrupt. They will not reveal the numbers deleted from the electoral rolls. It would be interesting to see the demography of people deleted if they ever release the list.
All institutes have been degraded. SAD.
No injustice should be done to any one under the guise of SIR
The whole SIR should’ve been made illegal.
Modi and Shah have turned out to be financially and morally corrupt. They will not reveal the numbers deleted from the electoral rolls. It would be interesting to see the demography of people deleted if they ever release the list.
All institutes have been degraded. SAD.