Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) is the ninth such exercise since Independence, with the last one happening in 2002-04.
Election Commission Press Conference Live Updates: The Election Commission has announced phase two of special intensive revision of electoral rolls in 12 states. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said, “SIR will be held in Andaman and Nicobar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Lakshadweep, MP, Puducherry, Rajashtan, TN, UP, West Bengal.”
“Political parties have raised the issue of quality of electoral rolls on several occasions,” CEC said. Kumar said, “…In the states where SIR will be conducted, electoral rolls will be frozen at midnight, today. Later, voters will be given unique enumeration forms with all details” and added that training of polling officials for Phase-II of SIR to begin on Tuesday.
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Assam electoral roll revision announcement later: Kumar also noted that revision of electoral rolls in Assam will be announced separately. Officials from Assam have already conveyed to the Commission their inclination to carry out an intensive revision of rolls only after the National Register of Citizens (NRC) is published for the state. Assam is the only state to have already undertaken the exercise of preparing an NRC.
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