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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
TopicElectoral roll

Topic: electoral roll

ECI’s voter verification drive in Bihar is tailor-made to keep Dalits, Muslims, EBCs out

Aadhaar, ration card, voter ID, and MGNREGA job card—the IDs poor voters actually hold are excluded from ECI's list of documents to prove identity and residence status in Bihar.

Bengalis love a good ghost story. This time, it’s in the voter list

How do ghost voters sneak into the voter lists? It is truly spooky. Also spooky, it is only in West Bengal that ghost voters were turned into political weaponry.

Gabbar, memes & Rajkummar Rao — ECI targets ‘urban & youth’ population with its ‘Desh ka Form’ campaign

Election Commission of India's multimedia 'Desh Ka Form' campaign aims to draw attention of existing & tentative voters to check or add their names in electoral rolls ahead of 2024 polls.

‘Voters should be given prior notice before deletion from electoral roll’: SC affirms ECI submission

SC quoted an ECI letter on preventing 'wrongful deletions'. Petitioners had demanded that rule allowing deletion of voter without notice or opportunity to be heard be declared 'unconstitutional.

House panel cautions Modi govt on proposed common voter list — ‘avoid stepping into states’ domain’

Parliamentary committee led by BJP Rajya Sabha member Sushil Modi observed in its report that implementing common electoral roll currently outside scope of Article 325 of Constitution. 

Lok Sabha passes bill to link voter ID with Aadhaar in 20 mins, as Opposition & others object

Move will ‘purify electoral rolls’ says Law Minister Rijiju. But Opposition parties as well as BJD & YSRCP, which have backed govt legislation before, ask why the ‘tearing hurry'.

On Camera

Goans are turning their anger toward migrants now

The real acrimony in Goa is against tourists and wealthy land buyers from Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru. Yet, the fury gets channelled downward against the poorest workers from the cowbelt.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.