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NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu main electoral serviceman Archana Patnaik connected Friday said the draught electoral roll, aft the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), for the authorities present includes 5,43,76,755 voters, comprising 2.66 crore women and 2.77 crore men.She said that anterior to the SIR, the poll-bound authorities had astir 6.41 crore registered voters, and the workout led to the deletion of 97,37,832 names from the rolls.According to Patnaik, the deletions included 26.94 lakh voters who had died, 66.44 lakh voters who had permanently shifted oregon migrated, and 3,39,278 duplicate entries wherever individuals were recovered to beryllium registered successful much than 1 place.She added that among those marked arsenic migrated, 66,44,881 persons were recovered not residing astatine their registered addresses aft 3 rounds of door-to-door verification conducted crossed the state.
The SIR successful the DMK-ruled authorities was conducted amid vehement absorption by main curate MK Stalin, whose enactment filed a petition successful the Supreme Court against the large roll-revision workout successful the confederate state.“To forestall this anti-democratic move, we convened an all-party gathering and passed a solution condemning the SIR. The Election Commission’s determination to transportation retired a afloat revision of the electoral rotation conscionable months earlier the predetermination is portion of a well-planned strategy to delete morganatic voters,” CM Stalin said portion criticising the Election Commission's electoral rotation sanitisation exercise.
CM Stalin added that the aforesaid maneuver was utilized earlier successful Bihar, wherever lakhs of genuine voters were allegedly "removed from the list". He besides pointed retired that absorption to this arguable process had archetypal emerged from Tamil Nadu, aft which the Congress person Rahul Gandhi, who besides happens to beryllium the Lok Sabha person of opposition, raised beardown objections.“Even aft a ineligible lawsuit was filed, the Election Commission did not springiness a satisfactory explanation,” CM Stalin said.Taking purpose astatine AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K Palaniswami, CM Stalin accused him of “playing a treble game” and being “afraid of the Election Commission owed to his ties with the BJP.”He added that portion migrant workers from Bihar had recovered livelihood and respect successful Tamil Nadu, the Prime Minister was “playing governmental play successful Bihar for electoral gain.”SIR successful BengalOn Tuesday, the Election Commission published a draught database of deleted voters aft the SIR of the electoral rolls successful West Bengal.
The database features voters whose names were included successful the state’s electoral rolls successful 2025 but were deleted from the draught rolls of 2026.This came aft the archetypal signifier of the SIR workout ended connected December 11. The 2nd phase, which began aft December 16, volition impact the filing of claims and objections. The announcement phase, which includes issuance, hearings, verification and decisions connected enumeration forms, arsenic good arsenic disposal of claims and objections, volition beryllium carried retired concurrently by Electoral Registration Officers (EROs).Parliament statement connected SIRThe SIR contented was besides debated and discussed astatine magnitude during the Winter Session of the parliament, with the Leader of the Rajya Sabha JP Nadda and different cardinal curate successful the NDA authorities urging the absorption parties to travel unneurotic to backmost the SIR of the electoral roll, portion pointing retired however West Bengal has seen a monolithic spike successful its electorate from 4.8 crore to 7.6 crore since the past SIR successful 2002.Nadda, citing ECI information during the statement successful Rajya Sabha connected electoral reforms, said the minimum summation successful voters' database of the 9 West Bengal districts bordering Bangladesh was 70 per cent since 2002, portion the maximum had crossed 100 per cent. He shared that Uttar Dinajpur has witnessed the highest spike successful electors astatine 105.5 per cent, Malda astatine 94.8 per cent, Murshidabad astatine 87.6 per cent, 24 Parganas astatine 83.5 per cent and Jalpaiguri astatine 82.3 per cent. What is SIRThe Election Commission of India (ECI) conducts a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to guarantee the accuracy and completeness of elector lists up of large elections. The workout involves a elaborate door-to-door verification to place and region duplicate, shifted oregon deceased entries portion enrolling caller and first-time voters.Carried retired nether the Representation of the People Act, 1950, the SIR aims to support the integrity of the electoral rolls by updating demographic details and correcting inaccuracies.During the revision, booth-level officers sojourn households, verify electors’ details, and facilitate claims and objections. The process is simply a cardinal portion of the Commission’s elector rotation management, ensuring that each eligible national is included and the rolls bespeak the astir existent and authentic information earlier elections.
